Review by Dario Soldatini, 2006, from imdb:
The dark side of an untold page of history
Brief synopsis North Italy, spring 1945, during the nazi-fascist occupation. A gang of fugitive republican fascists (John Steiner, Macha Meril and Lino Capolicchio) kidnaps a metrobus full of civilians and tries to escape to the Swiss’s border, in order to recover from the advancing allies and partisans. During the journey, we are able to see (throughout some flash-backs) the fascists’s activities prior to their runout (Macha Meril, in the role of Egle, a female volunteer for Italian Social Republic, in the attempt to humiliate a nude prisoner before sentencing him to death) alongside the captured civilians (remebrances of their “normal” lives under allies’ bombs and everyday’s troubles of wartime).Read More »