Overview
During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943.
Cast
- Giuseppe Fiorello as Salvo D'Acquisto
- Luigi Maria Burruano as Maggiore Spada
- Biancamaria D'Amato as Irene Jannone
- Domenico Balsamo as Guido Jannone
- Eugenia Costantini as Lucia
- Giovanni Esposito as Walter
- Nicola Di Pinto as Zio Oscar
- Helmut Hagen as Comandante Block
- Michele Nani
- Massimo Reale as Martuccelli