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Feu Mathias Pascal
Also known as Die zwei Leben des Mathias Pascal in Germany; Il fu Mattia Pascal in Italy; El difunto Matías Pascal in Spain; The Late Mathias Pascal in the USA : [The Late Matthew Pascal], [The Living Dead Man], [Feu Mathieu Pascal]
(1926) France
B&W : 3462 metres
Directed by Marcel L’Herbier
Cast: Ivan Mosjoukine [Mathias Pascal], Marcelle Pradot [Romilde Pascal], Lois Moran [Adrienne Paleari], Marthe Mellot [Madame Pascal, le mère de Mathias], Pauline Carton [tante scholastique], Irma Perrot [Sylvia Caporale], M. Barsac [Veuve Pescatore], Michel Simon [Jérôme Pomino], Isaure Douvan [Batta Maldagna], Pierre Batcheff [Scipion], Georges Térof [l’amoureux du 12, un joueur], Philippe Hériat [l’aide assesseur], Jean Hervé [Chev Terence Papiano], Solange Sicard [Olive Mesmi], Jaque Catelain [le client de l'hôtel], Jane Pierson, Jeanne Saint-Bonnet
Cinégraphic and Films Albatros production. / Produced by [?] Alexandre Kamenka? Scenario by Marcel L”Herbier, from the play Feu Mathias Pascal by Luigi Pirandello. Art direction by Alberto Cavalcanti, Erik Aaes and Lazare Meerson. Cinematography by René Guichard, Paul Guichard, Nikolas Roudakoff, Jean Letort, Jimmy Berliet and F. Bourgassof (Fédote Bourgasoff). / Released 12 February 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Portugal on 26 April 1926. The film was released in the USA by Film Arts Guild on 6 March 1927. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Equity British Films on 31 December 1929.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Art Deco
Listing updated: 9 January 2013.
References: Bardèche-History pp. 153, 169, 227; Limbacher-Feature p. 137; Mandelbaum-Screen p. 7; Shipman-Cinema p. 85 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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