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.
Baron Alfonso di San Severino
Professor Marcello Rossi
Herbert Kappler, SS-Obersturmbannführer
Gilberto di San Severino
Mariella
Giovanni Ferroni
Assunta Ferroni
Hans Weiss, SS-Obersturmführer
Pietro Caruso, Polizeipräsident
console tedesco
madre di Mariella
tenente Schwartz
Antonio Cantelli
Renato Andreazzi
Bruno Marchetti
sacerdote arrestato
Sergio
barone Messner
