The Man with a Cross

The Man with a Cross ItalianLuomo dalla croce is a 1943 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt and Attilio Dottesio. It was the final part of Rossellinis Fascist trilogy following The White Ship 1941 and A Pilot Returns 1942. It is loosely inspired by Reginaldo Giuliani, an Italian military chaplain who had been killed on active service.

The film is set in the summer of 1942 in Ukraine where Italian troops are fighting those of the Soviet Union. A military chaplain volunteers to stay behind with a badly wounded Italian soldier, even though this means certain capture.

Source: Wikipedia