
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Cast

Totò
Gasparre

Carlo Campanini
Battista

Isa Barzizza
Matilde

Nerio Bernardi
Il duca Filippo

Raymond Bussières
Signor Deval

Franca Marzi
Susanne de la Pleine

Ada Dondini
La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio

Guglielmo Barnabò
Il giudice

Annette Poivre
Madame Therese

Luigi Almirante
Il boia di Parigi

Galeazzo Benti
Giorgio

Mario Castellani
Maggiordomo (uncredited)

Raimondo Vianello
Un ufficiale (uncredited)

Nico Pepe
Abate Faria (uncredited)
Crew

Mario Mattoli
Director

Steno
Screenplay, Story
Jean Jacques Rastier
Screenplay, Story

Agenore Incrocci
Screenplay, Story
Fernando Tropea
Editor
Tino Santoni
Director of Photography
Jan Stallich
Director of Photography
Armando Grottini
Second Assistant Director
Gastone Medin
Production Design
Ovidio Del Grande
Sound
Eldo Di Lazzaro
Original Music Composer

Livio Pavanelli
Production Manager
Pippo Barzizza
Conductor
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