Il Generale della Rovere: The big favour

The bar where Grimaldi (De Sica) receives two women to negotiate the release of one of their relatives is today's Il Buchetto restaurant, located in Via Flaminia 119 in Rome, exactly in front of Villa Brasini.

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PLOT
At the time of the German occupation a swindler, Bertone, is arrested by the SS: he is accused of having had sums paid to him by relatives of those shot and deported, boasting of nonexistent adherences to the German command. Now the man himself is exposed to the danger of being shot; but the senior officer questioning him gets the idea of making use of the ability demonstrated by the accused to weave cheats for his own ends.