General Della Rovere

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Drama War

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)

Linda Veras

(German attendant)

Sandra Milo

(Olga)

Giovanna Ralli

(Valeria)

Anne Vernon

(Carla Fassio)

Ester Carloni

(Brothel Maid)

Armando Annuale

(Bit part (uncredited))

Gianni Baghino

(Scalise (uncredited))

Baronessa Bazzani

(Contessa Bianca Maria Della Rovere (uncredited))

Peter Boom

(Bit part (uncredited))

Clarissa Corner

((uncredited))

Lina De Rossi

((uncredited))

Ivo Garrani

(Partisan chief (uncredited))

Franco Interlenghi

(Antonio Pasquali (uncredited))

Piero Pastore

(Prisoner (uncredited))

Roberto Rossellini

(Man in Gestapo office (uncredited))

Alessandro Tedeschi

(Nazi soldier (uncredited))

Leopoldo Valentini

(Giuseppe Di Castro (uncredited))

Vezio Natili

(German Guard (uncredited))

Aristide Catoni

(Prisoner (uncredited))