"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
Linda Veras
as German attendant
Sandra Milo
as Olga
Giovanna Ralli
as Valeria
Anne Vernon
as Carla Fassio
Ester Carloni
as Brothel Maid
Armando Annuale
as Bit part (uncredited)
Gianni Baghino
as Scalise (uncredited)
Baronessa Bazzani
as Contessa Bianca Maria Della Rovere (uncredited)
Peter Boom
Clarissa Corner
as (uncredited)
Lina De Rossi
Ivo Garrani
as Partisan chief (uncredited)
Franco Interlenghi
as Antonio Pasquali (uncredited)
Piero Pastore
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Roberto Rossellini
as Man in Gestapo office (uncredited)
Alessandro Tedeschi
as Nazi soldier (uncredited)
Leopoldo Valentini
as Giuseppe Di Castro (uncredited)
Vezio Natili
as German Guard (uncredited)
Aristide Catoni
Director
Indro Montanelli
Novel
Anna Maria Montanari
Script Supervisor
Paolo Frascà
Production Manager
Francesco Ciarletta
Assistant Production Design
Renzo Rossellini
Original Music Composer
Manolo Bolognini
Production Supervisor
Ovidio Del Grande
Sound
Screenplay
Carlo Giovagnorio
Production Secretary
Tinto Brass
First Assistant Director
Diego Fabbri
Story
Gianni Cecchin
Vera Marzot
Assistant Costume Designer
Philippe Arthuys
Ruggero Radicchi
Assistant Camera
Zeev Havatzelet
Second Assistant Director
Sergio Amidei
Moris Ergas
Executive Producer
Piero Zuffi
Costume Design
Production Design
Elio Costanzi
Set Decoration
Carlo Carlini
Director of Photography
Cesare Cavagna
Editor
Mara Rocchetti
Hairstylist
Goffredo Rocchetti
Makeup Artist
Luigi Filippo Carta
Camera Operator