The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Vittorio De Sica
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Hannes Messemer
as S.S. Colonel Mueller
Vittorio Caprioli
as Aristide Banchelli
Nando Angelini
as Paolo
Herbert Fischer
as Sergeant Walter Hageman
Mary Greco
as Vera (the madam)
Bernardo Menicacci
as Prison guard
Lucia Modugno
as Partisan girl
Luciano Pigozzi
as Prisoner
Kurt Polter
as German officer
Giuseppe Rosetti
as Pietro Valeri
Kurt Selge
as Marshall Schrantz
