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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 : [?] Twelve? reels / 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 Douvane [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, Jean Letort, F. Bourgassof (Fédote Bourgasoff) and Jimmy Berliet + [Paul Guichard and Nikolas Roudakoff]. Presented by La Société de films Armor. / 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: Prints exist in La Cinémathèque française film archive (Films Albatros collection) [35mm duplicate preservation positive (struck 1964)], (Marcel L’Herbier collection) [35mm positive (acquired 1958)], and [35mm restoration version (completed 2009)].
Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Art Deco
Listing updated: 11 February 2026.
References: Film credits, film viewing : 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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