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 prove his identity.
as Mathias Pascal / Adrien Meis
as Louise Paleari
as Le comte Papiano
as Romilda Pescatore
as Delphine Pescatore
as Angelica Fede Pascal
as Mlle Caporale
as Henri Paleari
as La tante Scholastique
as Le chevalier Titus
as Malagna, l'ancien prétendant et notaire de Madame Pascal
as l'hôtelier du Luxor
as le concierge de l'hôtel
as le directeur du journal
as l'ivrogne
as Pomino, le fils du maire, employé de l'état civil, qui épousera Romilda en secondes noces
as Le fossoyeur
as le maire, père de Pomino
as Ottavio Meis, un homme qui se croit le cousin de Mathias
as Adèle Meis, sa femme
as Pepita, une jeune pensionnaire
as Beraldez
as le domestique simplet de la pension Paleari
as le coiffeur
as le docteur Basile, un pensionnaire
as le curé
as le bibliothécaire à la retraite
as (non crédité)
