Feu Mathias Pascal (1925) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

The son of a once rich family marries a beautiful woman with a terrible mother-in-law.

Cast & Crew

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Marcel L'herbier

Ivan Mosjoukine

Marthe Belot

Maria Pascal--Mathias' Mother

Pauline Carton

Scolastique Pascal--Mathias' Aunt

Michel Simon

Marcelle Pradot

Romilde Pescatore

Photos & Videos

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Feu Mathais Pascal (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Work Means Liberty

Feu Mathais Pascal (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Whom She Secretly Admires

Feu Mathais Pascal (1925) -- (Movie Clip) No More Bets

Film Details

Genre

Drama

Foreign

Silent

Release Date

1925

Production Company

Cinegraphic

Distribution Company

British Film Institute

Technical Specs

Duration

2h 50m

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Synopsis

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias 50,000 Lira, and Mathias, being officially dead can neither marry Adrienne nor denounce Terence to the police, he decides to do something about his state and travels home, just to notice that Romalinda has remarried...

Director

Marcel L'herbier

Cast

Ivan Mosjoukine

Marthe Belot

Maria Pascal--Mathias' Mother

Pauline Carton

Scolastique Pascal--Mathias' Aunt

Michel Simon

Marcelle Pradot

Romilde Pescatore

Isaure Douvane

Georges Terof

Gambler Who Bets On 12

Lois Moran

Adrienne Paleari

Philippe Heriat

Anselmo Paleari--Adrienne'S Father

Irma Perrot

Saldia Caporale

Jean Herve

Terence Papiano

Pierre Batcheff

Scipion Papiano

Crew

[alberto] Cavalcanti

Rene Guichard

Alexandre Kamenka

Marcel L'herbier

Jean Letort

Lazare Meerson

Assistant Art Direction

Luigi Pirandello

Novel As Source Material ("Il Fu Mattia Pascal")

Videos

Feu Mathais Pascal (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Whom She Secretly Admires Ivan Mosjoukine (title character) has a chance encounter with Romilde (Marcelle Pradot) who, we suspect, is the beloved of his clownish friend Pomino (Michel Simon), in Marcel L’Herbier’s film from the Pirandello novel, Feu Mathias Pascal, a.k.a. The Late Mathias Pascal, 1925.

Feu Mathais Pascal (1925) -- (Movie Clip) No More Bets Title character (Ivan Mosjoukine), a novice on a roulette run at Monte Carlo, ignoring the advice of a gambler (Georges Terof) who advised him to bet on 12, in Feu Mathias Pascal, a.k.a. The Late Mathias Pascal, 1925, directed by Marcel L’Herbier, from the novel by Pirandello.

Feu Mathais Pascal (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Work Means Liberty Formerly affluent Ivan Mosjoukine (title character) arrives for his first day of work at the municipal library, sets by future director Alberto Cavalcanti, in Marcel L’Herbier’s film from the Luigi Pirandello novel, Feu Mathias Pascal, a.k.a. The Late Mathias Pascal, 1925.

Film Details

Genre

Drama

Foreign

Silent

Release Date

1925

Production Company

Cinegraphic

Distribution Company

British Film Institute

Technical Specs

Duration

2h 50m

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

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