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
Gasparre
Carlo Campanini
Battista
Isa Barzizza
Matilde
Nerio Bernardi
Il duca Filippo
Raymond Bussières
Signor Deval
Franca Marzi
Susanne de la Pleine