History Film / ElAlameinTheLineOfFire

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: In an early scene, an English sniper several yards in front of the protagonists' trenches is spotted after shooting at a few soldiers, and when two medics go out of the trenches to bring the wounded back, they are shot and killed.

* ForegoneConclusion: The Second Battle of El-Alamein notoriously ended with a defeat of the Axis forces. So, everybody can guess that the Italians are not going to win the day. [[spoiler: History buffs of the Trope/SecondWorldWar's Desert Campaign would also probably know that the Pavia division was completely destroyed during the subsequent retreat and can therefore figure out that the film is not going to end well for its protagonists]].

* WithThisHerring: In one scene the troops receive two trucks of supplies (which were heading for the coast, but took a completely wrong direction), one full of shoe polish, and the other carrying Mussolini's [[WhiteStallion personal horse]], for the great parade of [[GeneralFailure the arrival to Alexandria]]. Apparently Mussolini [[ArmchairMilitary doesn't understand]] that they're never going to arrive to Alexandria.

* InfiniteSupplies: {{Averted|Trope}}: the Italian troops have little food, fuel munitions, medicines, and water (and what water they get is polluted). The British tend to give this impression with their casual artillery salvoes and every single soldier being loaded with food, but the soldiers, being GenreSavvy, realize it's just because they're near their supply bases, so their supplies have a much shorter way to the front.

* WarIsHell: The film manages to drive this point home ''before anyone in the cast dies'', by showing the ''Bersagliere'' happy for successfully scavenging a quarter litre of fuel, the sight of Fiore's command post, the insistence on Serra's canteen of pure water (extremely rare on the frontlines) and the GenreSavvy corporal so used to artillery he can tell when the shells are coming down on him. ''Then'' the corporal shouts at Serra to take cover because an artillery salvo is about to hit them, and gets [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill disintegrated when a shell hits his head]].

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''El Alamein - The Line Of Fire'' (2002) is an Italian film directed by Enzo Monteleone, set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and starring Paolo Briguglia, Emilio Solfrizzi and Pierfrancesco Favino. It takes place during the [[WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica 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.

* GenreSavvy: The Corporal who brings Serra to the front line is able to recognize whether an artillery shell is gonna land in the distance, or on his position, simply by hearing how the incoming 'whoosh' sounds. The first time it happens, Serra jumps down while the Corporal just calmly stands up in the dust, and explains him about this. Half a minute later a second bombardment happens, this time on their position, and he shouts to Serra to get to cover, but while shouting [[spoiler: a shell lands right on him. When Sergeant Rizzo and two of his men arrive, all they found of Serra's Corporal is [[SmolderingShoes an ear]]]].
--> '''Rizzo''': He became sand. It happens.