War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel ...
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Paolo Briguglia | ... | Pvt. Serra |
| Pierfrancesco Favino | ... | Sgt. Rizzo | |
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Luciano Scarpa | ... | Spagna |
| Emilio Solfrizzi | ... | Lt. Fiore | |
| Thomas Trabacchi | ... | Capt. De Vita | |
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Sergio Albelli | ... | Lt. Sforza |
| Piero Maggiò | ... | Tarozzi | |
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Antonio Petrocelli | ||
| Giuseppe Cederna | ... | Capt. Medician | |
| Roberto Citran | ... | The Colonel | |
| Silvio Orlando | ... | The General | |
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Matteo Albano | ... | Carabiniere Avamposto Munizionamento |
| Lorenzo Balducci | ... | Soldato Trincea | |
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Massimiliano Cutrera | ||
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Fabio Ferri | ||
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War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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8 November 2002 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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The motorcycle which delivers volunteer Private Serra at the beginning and then rescues him at the end is a Moto Guzzi SuperAlce. See more »Goofs
The car wreck where the sniper was hiding is clearly a post WWII Land Rover (a series-II or III build after 1958) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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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.