DVD La fin vendu de Mathias Pascal, 1925

Directors: Marcel LHerbier

Writers: Marcel LHerbier, Luigi Pirandello

Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Marcelle Pradot, Lois Moran, Marthe Mellot, Pauline Carton, Irma Perrot, Sylvia Caporale, Mireille Barsac, Michel Simon, Isaure Douvan, Pierre Batcheff, Georges Térof, Philippe Hériat, Jean Hervé, J.N. Douvan-Tarzow, Jaque Catelain, Jane Pierson, Solange Sicard

Runtime: 2 hours and 50 minutes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Storyline: 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 life, 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 owners daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adriennes 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 Romilde has remarried2.

Color: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound Mix: Silent

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