Overview
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 as Gasparre
- Carlo Campanini as Battista
- Isa Barzizza as Matilde
- Nerio Bernardi as Il duca Filippo
- Raymond Bussières as Signor Deval
- Franca Marzi as Susanne de la Pleine
- Ada Dondini as La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio
- Guglielmo Barnabò as Il giudice
- Annette Poivre as Madame Therese
- Luigi Almirante as Il boia di Parigi