A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Gino Cervi
as Baron Alfonso di San Severino
Andrea Checchi
as Professor Marcello Rossi
Carlo D'Angelo
as Herbert Kappler, SS-Obersturmbannführer
Sergio Fantoni
as Gilberto di San Severino
Cristina Gaïoni
as Mariella
Ivo Garrani
as Giovanni Ferroni
Gloria Milland
as Assunta Ferroni
Oliviero Prunas
as Hans Weiss, SS-Obersturmführer
Nino Pavese
as Pietro Caruso, Polizeipräsident
Loris Gizzi
as console tedesco
Emma Baron
as madre di Mariella
Edy Biagetti
as tenente Schwartz
