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El Alamein: The Line of Fire

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El Alamein: The Line of Fire	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002) is an Italian film directed by Enzo Monteleone, set during World War II and starring Paolo Briguglia, Emilio Solfrizzi and Pierfrancesco Favino. It takes place during the Battle of El Alamein, and follows a group of Italian soldiers from the Pavia division, which is deployed in the south sector of the line, close to the Qattara Depression. A new soldier, Private Serra, arrives on the front line full of enthusiasm. He soon finds out that life on the front line is much more horrible than he had learned.
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El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_5313c266	comment	Bookends: The film starts and ends with Serra riding a bike in the desert.
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El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: Both the Italians and the British are shown to be this. British troops can go in places not even the Bedouins dare to go, and their artillery is formidable. The Italians, on the other hand, not only are still fighting against such a superior enemy, but repelled their initial attack. Subverted by the Afrika Korps, of all people: not only they barely show up, but the only things we know for certain about them in the film is that some of them still have trucks to retreat with, the British broke through them, and they're still blaming the Italians for the defeat.
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El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_b8ba9b1f	comment	Crossing the Desert: The soldiers have to retreat after the Allies have broken through the entire El Alamein line. Unfortunately, there's no vehicles to drive them off. The ones which are driving away have no space for Fiore's platoon. They actually manage to get a truck at a medic post, but when they enter a shelter because of an airstrike, the truck itself is destroyed. Rizzo and Serra are sent by Lieutenant Fiore to the Qattara Depression to check what happened to an outpost which stopped responding to the command. Rizzo comments that the patrol doesn't make sense because nobody would head for the Depression, not even Bedouins. When they arrive, they find out that the outpost's garrison is dead, maybe killed by the English, who Rizzo says are "more bedouin than the Bedouins".
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El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted by the Afrika Korps, of all people: not only they barely show up, but the only things we know for certain about them in the film is that some of them still have trucks to retreat with, the British broke through them, and they're still blaming the Italians for the defeat.
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El Alamein: The Line of Fire / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Averted. The one colonel we see during the retreat had ordered his guards to keep people outside of a bomb shelter (resulting in at least one guard staying exposed to a bombing raid and getting trampled by Fiore's platoon, who ignores his orders), and later acts callously to Fiore and his men, leaving them to fend for themselves in the desert.
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