

88 minutes
11/26/1947
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.

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

Galeazzo Benti
as Giorgio

Mario Castellani
as Maggiordomo (uncredited)

Raimondo Vianello
as Un ufficiale (uncredited)

Nico Pepe
as Abate Faria (uncredited)