Plot
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
Massimo Reale
as Martuccelli