

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.

Giuseppe Fiorello

Luigi Maria Burruano

Biancamaria D'Amato

Domenico Balsamo

Eugenia Costantini

Giovanni Esposito

Nicola Di Pinto

Helmut Hagen

Michele Nani

Massimo Reale

Giuseppe Soleri

Maria Pia Calzone

Ciro Capano

Nunzia Schiano

Elio Veller

Leandro Amato

Maria Cristina Fioretti

Mara Fronzi

Francesco Foti

Giovanni Moschella