Cellini-Freedom Fighter: This is his true life story.

Vito “Tutuc” Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent – all before he was 21 years of age. In World War Two he deserted the Italian Army and fought Nazis with the Partisans in Yugoslavia, before returning to Italy to join the Allies amid one of the biggest cover-ups of the war. He ended the war as an agent with the American OSS (forerunner of the CIA) hunting down criminals and undesirables. Sailing home to New York in 1948 with a forged Italian pas...