

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.
Filippo Walter Ratti
Assunta Ferroni
Oliviero Prunas
Hans Weiss, SS-Obersturmführer

Nino Pavese
Pietro Caruso, Polizeipräsident

Loris Gizzi
console tedesco

Emma Baron
madre di Mariella

Edy Biagetti
tenente Schwartz