General Della Rovere (1959) on Netflix

Plot summary

Genoa, under German occupation. Emanuele Bardone supports a gambling habit by posing as a colonel in the Italian army and as a middleman between the families of prisoners held by the Germans and the authorities, taking their money. When the Gestapo catches him, SS Colonel Müller offers him a way out: instead of a firing squad, he is to pass himself off as General Della Rovere, a resistance leader the Germans have just shot. In a political prison in Milan he is to draw information from the inmates, who are to take him for the real general, and to identify another resistance organizer.