CARMELO BORG PISANI (ITALIAN SUBTITLES) DIRECTED BY ADAM BONELLO

Carmelo Borg Pisani (10 August 1914 – 28 November 1942) was a Maltese-born artist and Italian Fascist who, on being discovered during an espionage mission in Malta, was found guilty by a British war tribunal and executed for alleged treason. While arguments continue in Malta over whether or not he was a traitor of his country in Italy, the name of Carmelo is a legend.
Benito Mussolini called him a Maltese Martyr and in 1943 created in Liguria the Battaglione Borg Pisani, in his honour. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour, the highest Italian military award, by King Vittorio Emmanuele III. Requests have regularly been made by his family and the Italian Government to exhume his body, and give it an honourable burial, which request has never been acceded to.
In The Knight the late ex-Maltese Premier Dom Mintoff described Borg Pisani as follows: "He was no common adventurer selling his services to the winning side; he was a quiet young artist fired by reckless idealism. He faced the gallows at peace with God and with his conscience. Malta is not ashamed to have had him as one of her unlucky sons."