Drama / War /

Score: 74.4%( 135 votes )

Overview: The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Cast:

Vittorio De Sica
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

Hannes Messemer
S.S. Colonel Mueller

Vittorio Caprioli
Aristide Banchelli

Nando Angelini
Paolo

Herbert Fischer
Sergeant Walter Hageman

Mary Greco
Vera (the madam)

Bernardo Menicacci
Prison guard

Lucia Modugno
Partisan girl

Luciano Pigozzi
Prisoner

Kurt Polter
German officer

Giuseppe Rosetti
Pietro Valeri

Kurt Selge
Marshall Schrantz

Linda Veras
German attendant

Sandra Milo
Olga

Giovanna Ralli
Valeria

Anne Vernon
Carla Fassio

Ester Carloni
Brothel Maid

Armando Annuale
Bit part (uncredited)

Gianni Baghino
Scalise (uncredited)

Baronessa Bazzani
Contessa Bianca Maria Della Rovere (uncredited)

Peter Boom
Bit part (uncredited)

Clarissa Corner
(uncredited)

Lina De Rossi
(uncredited)

Ivo Garrani
Partisan chief (uncredited)

Franco Interlenghi
Antonio Pasquali (uncredited)

Piero Pastore
Prisoner (uncredited)

Roberto Rossellini
Man in Gestapo office (uncredited)

Alessandro Tedeschi
Nazi soldier (uncredited)

Leopoldo Valentini
Giuseppe Di Castro (uncredited)

Vezio Natili
German Guard (uncredited)

Aristide Catoni
Prisoner (uncredited)