The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal

Year: 1985

Runtime: 178 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Mario Monicelli

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Based on Pirandello’s novel Il fu Mattia Pascal, the film examines truth and identity. Mattia Pascal, scorned by his fiancée, friends and relatives and robbed of his inheritance, flees to Monte Carlo. There he wins a fortune and takes the dead gambler’s identity, only to find the persona brings dignity and respect that astonishes and endangers him.

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