El Alamein - The Line of Fire

A powerful and poignant war drama, "El Alamein - The Line of Fire" (2002) tells the story of Serra, a young Italian university student from Palermo who volunteers to fight in Africa during World War II. Sent to join his assignment near El Alamein, he is confronted with the harsh realities of life in the trenches and must confront his own mortality as he struggles to come to terms with the fact that each soldier has only three "miracles" before they die.