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Director:
Writer:
Enzo Monteleone (writer)
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Release Date:
8 November 2002 (Italy) more
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Plot:
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 7 nominations more
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A War movie, Italian Cinema way. more (8 total)

Cast

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Paolo Briguglia ... Serra
Pierfrancesco Favino ... Sgt. Rizzo
Luciano Scarpa ... Spagna
Emilio Solfrizzi ... Lt. Fiore
Thomas Trabacchi ... Capt. De Vita
Giuseppe Cederna ... Capt. Medician
Piero Maggiò ... Tarozzi
Roberto Citran ... The colonel
Silvio Orlando ... The general
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sergio Albelli ... Lt. Sforza
Lorenzo Balducci ... Soldato trincea
Fabio Ferri
Antonio Petrocelli
Simone Spinazze ... Injured soldiers driver
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
El Alamein: The Line of Fire (International: English title)
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Runtime:
117 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Anachronisms: The car wreck where the sniper was hiding is clearly a post WWII Land Rover (a series-II or III build after 1958) more

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1 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
A War movie, Italian Cinema way., 25 January 2009
4/10
Author: Locomotiva1 from Italy

How to make a film in Italy.

A script that has anything original or "important": war is bad, that's it. But it's a "liberal" point of view, so it's good and it's enough.

The same actors seen in every Italian film adding the usual comedian out of a night show (Favino) to have a "known one", and an homage to "bigger names" of the director's circle, giving a cameo to Orlando (Moretti's best one) and Cederna (Salvatore's own).

Bad acting: in Italian, every actor murmured in some local "patois", and hardly you can understand what they say. That's a cliché of every Italian war movie, that Italian soldiers uttered strong local accents: war movie or comic film. Not else.

Even budget wasn't SO low, no attempt to research what's the right uniforms, vehicles, terms, historical details, as none of the blue-nosed liberal producers wants to talk with the "militarist" who collect or study military history.

Spice all with "I'm an artist" attitude, and you have a typical Italian movie.

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