Feu Mathias Pascal (1925) | Directed by Marcel L'Herbier - Full Movie

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, 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.

Feu Mathias Pascal (The late Matthias Pascal) is a 1925 French silent film written and directed by Marcel L'Herbier. It was the first film adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's novel Il fu Mattia Pascal.

Directed by: Marcel L'Herbier
Written by: Marcel L'Herbier, Luigi Pirandello (novel)
Produced by: Cinégraphic, Films Albatros
Starring: Ivan Mosjoukine, Marcelle Pradot, Michel Simon
Distributed by: Films Armor
Release date: July 1925 (Paris), February 1926 (France)
Running time: 171 minutes
Country: France
Language: Silent