
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Vittorio De SicaBardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Hannes MessemerS.S. Colonel Mueller
Vittorio CaprioliAristide Banchelli
Nando AngeliniPaoloHerbert FischerSergeant Walter HagemanMary GrecoVera (the madam)Bernardo MenicacciPrison guard
Lucia ModugnoPartisan girl
Luciano PigozziPrisonerKurt PolterGerman officerGiuseppe RosettiPietro ValeriKurt SelgeMarshall Schrantz
Linda VerasGerman attendant
Sandra MiloOlga
Giovanna RalliValeria