Massacre in Rome

"Rome is a time bomb!"

Torn from the pages of history comes the true account of one of the most devastating massacres in the chronicles of modern warfare.

March 1944. With the fortunes of war turning against the Third Reich, Nazi-occupied Rome is a hotbed of dissent and reaction from the growing resistance movement. When the Roman underground ambushes a column of SS military police, killing 33, the German High Command orders the execution of 10 Roman citizens for each of its fallen soldiers.

Massacre In Rome unites two of the greatest cinema icons of the 1960s. Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 8