Geronimo1967
With the Nazis now firmly in control of the City of Rome, they have come up with a plan to extort 100 lbs of gold from its Jewish community else they must deliver two hundred of their most distinguished citizens up as hostage - and they know that will only be a prelude to more wholesale attacks on their faith and their assets. They have barely forty-eight hours to deliver the goods, and so many of them gather together everything of value that they possess to raise this ransom. Davide (Gérard Blain) wants none of this appeasement, though. He argues with his leaders that this is but the start of their persecution and that they must leave the city and join the partisans awaiting the arrival of the allies. He also has an eye for Giulia (Anna Ma...