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)
