The Man from Nowhere

Year: 1937

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: French

Director: Pierre Chenal

Drama

Mathias Pascal, with a wife and mother‑in‑law, leaves home and wins at gambling resorts. Returning, he finds a drowned man recovered from the river, his double, being buried as him by family. Seeing this as a lucky turn, he goes to Rome, falls for Louise Paleari, and draws Count Papiano’s wrath, threatening arrest unless he proves his identity.

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