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
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
Breakthrough
Happiness Costs Nothing
The Man Who Wasn't There
Cabaret
The Unknown Woman
Heaven's Gate
Woyzeck
The Public Enemy
The Flowers of St. Francis
Europa '51
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Where Eagles Dare
Patton
Fatherland
The White Rose
A Bullet for the General
Scandal in Sorrento
The Family Tree
Black Moon
Sword of the Beast