Storyline
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Released
10/7/1959
Runtime
2h 12min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Italian
Production
Société Nouvelle des Établissements Gaumont (SNEG), Zebra Film
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)
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