"El Alamein: The Line of Fire" is an Italian movie with English sub-titles that is available on DVD.
Very good quality. (Better than the other Italian movie "The Fallen", directed by Ari Taub, which is about a small German, American and Italian units at the Gothic Line).
An Italian student joins the entrenched Pavia Division that is defending El Alamein, Egypt. The story follows a company of Italian soldiers as they fight the desert and thrist while waiting for the British to attack. Has some parallels to "Platoon" and other similiar war themes. Good quality but not a big-budget film; no more than 50 actors on the screen. Accurate in uniforms and historical setting. One problem is that it has several night scenes and it is so-o dark you can't follow the action. The biggest battle was one of these night scenes.
The uniforms included infantry of the Pavia Division, some Bersaglieri troops and a few of the Folgore paratroopers, plus a few generals thrown in. It has one uniform of a soldier wearing the color insignia of Transport Corps, as seen on Jim's uniform in the Militaria Collectibles thread. Equipment looked good for me, except for one US M-3 half-track marked as a German half-track.
Great photography, but of course, most of the scenery is desert. It won an Italian Academy Award for Photography, Best Editing & Sound Deisgn. I recommend you see it.
Steve -- {excuse me if I have already posted this review elsewhere on the forum.}
. I've been interested in seeing it since viewing the trailers, although part of me (the part I don't like) is resisting the urge to see it because it will put a human face on an enemy that commited so many acts of inhuman cruelty against Allied POWS, as well as the Phillipino & Chinese civilians.