The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
153 audience votes
Key crew
- Roberto RosselliniDirector
- Renzo RosselliniOriginal Music Composer
- Indro MontanelliScreenplay
- Diego FabbriScreenplay
- Sergio AmideiScreenplay
Cast
- Vittorio De SicaBardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- Hannes MessemerS.S. Colonel Mueller
- Vittorio CaprioliAristide Banchelli
- Nando AngeliniPaolo
- Herbert FischerSergeant Walter Hageman
- Mary GrecoVera (the madam)
- Bernardo MenicacciPrison guard
- Lucia ModugnoPartisan girl
- Luciano PigozziPrisoner
- Kurt PolterGerman officer
- Giuseppe RosettiPietro Valeri
- Kurt SelgeMarshall Schrantz
Stills
Themes
nazigeneralitalyresistancebrothelbraverycon mancrookswindlerpartisangestapoveteran