The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal () is a 1985 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was adapted from the novel Il fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot Mattia Pascal, an unsuccessful small farmer in northern Italy, decides to try his luck at a French casino and wins. When he sees in a newspaper story that a man with the same name has died mysteriously, he decides that this is a perfect opportunity to begin a new life. He takes the name Arturo Meis and moves to Rome. But he finds that a new life is not necessarily a more satisfying one.
Cast Marcello Mastroianni as Mattia Pascal Senta Berger as Clara Flavio Bucci as Terenzio Papiano Laura Morante as Adriana Paleari Laura del Sol as Romilda Pescatore as Véronique Andréa Ferréol as Silvia Caporale Bernard Blier as Anselmo Paleari Alessandro Haber as Mino Pomino Néstor Garay as Giambattista Malagna Rosalia Maggio as Widow Pescatore as Oliva Salvoni Carlo Bagno as Pellegrinotto Flora Cantone as Mattia's mother Helen Stirling as Aunt Scolastica François Marinovich as Pomino's father Elettra Mancini Ferrua as the maid in the Pascal household Paul Muller as the chip thief in Monte Carlo Victor Cavallo as Lawyer Cirino Settebellezze Tonino Proietti as Clara’s lover Giuseppe Cederna as the gambling-house operator in Venice Peter Berling as Aristide Melainassis Roberto Accornero as the suicidal man in Monte Carlo
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