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