L'Agnese va a morire, internationally released as And Agnes Chose to Die, is a 1976 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo.

[3] Agnese is a middle-aged woman from Comacchio who lives with her husband Palita, a member of the Italian Resistance.

One day her husband is deported to a concentration camp, where he will die; due to her loss she wants to help her companions by bringing food, information, weapons and news from one country to another.

She therefore becomes a partisan relay: her life continues like this for six months but one day a German soldier kills his black cat for fun and that same night Agnese hits him by breaking his head with the butt of a machine gun and leaving him for dead.

When, in the last harsh winter, a group of partisans are betrayed and exterminated by Germans stationed along the route that should take them beyond the lines, Agnese disobeys her commander by hiding the survivors in the house.