There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.

意大利人民反抗侵略，战争场面拍的相当宏大，各种优美流畅的长镜头，演员表演内敛自然，这部电影标志着意大利的电影人已经掌握了非常娴熟全面的电影技艺，被誉为当时意大利电影的最高成就丝毫不为过