Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
Ettore Manni
as Capitano Nazario Sauro
Paul Müller
as Luigi Staffi
Olga Solbelli
as Anna Sauro
Lili Cerasoli
as Marcia Sauro
Enio Girolami
as Sergio
Fanny Landini
as Maria
Marc Lawrence
as Capitano March
Fausto Tozzi
as
Saro Urzì
as
Carlo Hintermann
as Tenente Sarnich
