General Della Rovere
A morally complex WWII drama about a petty criminal forced into an impossible deception who discovers unexpected dignity and sacrifice amid the machinery of fascism.
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Essence
Ensemble
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
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