Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to p...
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Pierre BlancharMathias Pascal / Adrien Meis
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Isa MirandaLouise Paleari
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Robert Le ViganLe comte Papiano
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Ginette LeclercRomilda Pescatore
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Catherine FonteneyDelphine Pescatore
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Charlotte Barbier-KraussAngelica Fede Pascal
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Margo LionMlle Caporale
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SinoëlHenri Paleari
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MaximilienneLa tante Scholastique
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Pierre PalauLe chevalier Titus
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Pierre AlcoverMalagna, l'ancien prétendant et notaire de Madame Pascal
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Léonce Cornel'hôtelier du Luxor
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Louis Daquinle concierge de l'hôtel
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Gaston Duprayle directeur du journal
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René Géninl'ivrogne
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Jean HébeyPomino, le fils du maire, employé de l'état civil, qui épousera Romilda en secondes noces
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Robert MoorLe fossoyeur
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Marcel Valléele maire, père de Pomino
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Charles GranvalOttavio Meis, un homme qui se croit le cousin de Mathias
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Yvonne YmaAdèle Meis, sa femme
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Paquita ClaudePepita, une jeune pensionnaire
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Marcel LupoviciBeraldez
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Georges Doukingle domestique simplet de la pension Paleari