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El Alamein
The Line of Fire
a film by
ENZO MONTELEONE
a CATTLEYA
production
in collaboration with
MEDUSA FILM
Italian distribution
World Sales
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El Alamein
CAST
Serra
PAOLO BRIGUGLIA
Sgt. Rizzo
PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO
Spagna
LUCIANO SCARPA
Ten. Fiore
EMILIO SOLFRIZZI
Cap. De Vita
THOMAS TRABACCHI
also starring
SILVIO ORLANDO
ROBERTO CITRAN
GIUSEPPE CEDERNA
El Alamein
CREW
Directed by
Screenplay by
Ass. Director
1° Ass. Director
ENZO MONTELEONE
ENZO MONTELEONE
GIACOMO LESINA
MATTEO ALBANO
Casting
Special Effects
BEATRICE KRUGER
GIANCARLO MANCINI
D.O.P.
Cameraman
Special Effects Supervisor
Art Director
DANIELE NANNUZZI
ANTONIO SCARAMUZZA
RENATO LONGHI
ETTORE GUERRIERI
Editor
Sound
Costumes
Make-up Artist
Hair Stylist
CECILIA ZANUSO
ANDREA MOSER
ADRIANO DI LORENZO
ANDREA VIOTTI
VINCENZO MASTRANTONIO
MAURO TAMAGNINI
Production Supervisor
Line Producer
PINO BUTTI
MARCO GRECO
Produced by
in collaboration with
CATTLEYA
MEDUSA FILM
Producers
RICCARDO TOZZI
GIOVANNI STABILINI
MARCO CHIMENZ
Italian Distributor
MEDUSA
Press Office
Studio NOBILE SCARAFONI
Tel. 06. 69925096 fax 06. 69782905
[email protected]
World Sales
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El Alamein
“And yet, in Libya there were also heroes, candid, human, soldier
heroes,
who did not abandon their friends, who died for nothing and knew it.
A pure gesture, no ideal if not that of human kindness, reflected in the
mirror of destiny. Some were heroes without a blaze. They also saw
what a man without a homeland, vilified and afflicted for twenty years
by a brutish tyranny, could give, and yet still retain some human
kindness.
When faced with death, diminishing hate, and being men that have a
destiny, and only that. A noble soldier without a flag; there is nothing
sadder; for a flag cannot be made.
And yet there were heroes.
Mario Tobino, Il deserto della Libia
El Alamein
FROM THE SCREENPLAY
COMMAND POST – ext. day
An Italian flag, sun-bleached and reduced to tatters by the wind, waves lazily in the
breeze.
The companies of the 2nd battalion, the 28th regiment of the “Pavia” infantry division
are stationed at the southernmost area of the front in Naq Rala, at the very edge of
the Qattara depression.
The landscape is immense and primordial: an arid expanse of boulders, stones, sand
and rock. And below this is the vast depression of a dried out sea where
temperatures soar to unbearable levels.
The command post comprises a tent, dry-stone walls, and camouflaged shelters
erected against a ridge of rock. The long months at the front line have left their mark
on the men with their sunburned faces, long beards and undernourished appearance.
In their tattered uniforms they look more like tramps than a military command. (…)
OUTPOST – ext. day
The Novara Outpost is of the “Alamein” type, arranged in a triangle.
There is a look-out post in each of the three corners equipped with a Breda 37
machine gun. In a slightly elevated position in the middle stands an anti-tank gun.
The posts are connected to each other by communication trenches. In front of them
are barbed wire barriers that mark off the minefields. Beyond the minefields lies noman’s-land scattered with the sculptural wreckage of destroyed burnt-out vehicles,
the scene of night-time incursions. (…)
SERRA (voice off)
Beloved Mom, Dear Father, I didn’t think such places existed.
We are camped at the southernmost part of the front overlooking the Qattara depression. It is
vast and empty. I have not yet seen anything of the war.
I thought it would be different.
Goodness knows what I expected: engagements, battles, shooting.
But here the men die unexpectedly, randomly, without knowing why,
without ever seeing the enemy.
I hope to have a chance to excel in battle here and that you
may be proud of me.
The “Pavia” soldiers are working in squads of 8/9 men digging the trenches; they are
on the alert for the movements of an enemy they can’t see but know is there. They
each have their own way of dealing with the problem of surviving in such a hellhole. (…)
Protected by a rocky outcrop, 5/6 soldiers are squatting bare-assed, their trousers
round their ankles, all suffering the terrible effects of dysentery. They have shovels at
their sides. When they have finished, they shovel sand into the hole to cover it and
go back to their duties. (…)
LIAISON AREA – ext. day
The sun is high in the sky. Two wounded soldiers are lying moaning abandoned on
the sand. The other stretcher bearer has found some shade behind the wrecked jeep:
he is afraid and sweating. No movement or sound comes from the rusty wreckage of
the British tank: there is no sign of life. The men in their foxholes are tense: watching,
waiting, and sweating. (…)
El Alamein
ENZO MONTELEONE
(director and screenplay writer)
Enzo Monteleone was born in Padua. His involvement with the film world dates
from his university days when he was the manager of the Centro Universitario
Cinematografico and the CinemaUno film club of Padua. He also worked for the
Venice local authority cinema circuit, Circuito Cinema, writing reviews and
monographs on Blake Edwards, Ken Russell and Werner Herzog. He also
contributed to the 50th anniversary retrospective of the Cinema Biennale. In 1980 he
took part in the production of Vagabondi by Carlo Mazzacurati, a 16mm film that
won a prize at the Film-Maker festival in Milan.
In 1982 he moved to Rome where he served his years of apprenticeship: he wrote
press-books for film production companies, made a film programme for television,
wrote the Italian dialogues for Nightmare, was assistant director on a TV movie in the
Amazon.
In 1986 his first screenplay was made into a film: Hotel Colonial, an Italo-American coproduction with Robert Duvall, John Savage, Rachel Ward and Massimo Troisi,
directed by Cinzia Th. Torrini.
He then went on to establish a close working relationship with Gabriele Salvatores
for whom he wrote the screenplays for four films: Kamikazen, Marrakech Express,
Mediterraneo (Oscar in 1992 for the best foreign film) and Puerto Escondido, a boxoffice hit in 1992-1993.
He has worked as a screenplay writer with some of the best new young directors: Il
prete bello for Mazzacurati, Ask for the Moon for Piccioni, Red American for D’Alatri,
and Off to the Revolution in a 2CV (winner of the Locarno Festival 2001) for Sciarra.
Before moving on to directing he wrote the screenplay for Spanish director Carlos
Saura’s Dispara! Outrage, starring Antonio Banderas and Francesca Neri, shown at
the Venice Film Festival in 1993.
In 1994 he made his directorial debut with The True Life of Antonio H., a tragicomic
bio-pic of actor Alessandro Haber (winner of the Nastro d’Argento award for best
leading actor).
In 1999 he directed his second film: Ormai è fatta!,starring Stefano Accorsi. The film
was in competition at the Moscow Film Festival, received four nominations for the
David di Donatello awards and won the European Cinema d’Essai Federation prize
at the Annecy Film Festival. For his performance, Stefano Accorsi won the “Grolla
d’Oro” as Best Actor.
CINEMA (Director)
1995 The True Life of Antonio H.
1996 Interviste d’autore: Ettore Scola
1997 Beer & cigarettes
Wine & cigarettes
1999 Ormai è fatta!
2000 Piazza Vittorio
2001 Sono solo un artigiano:
interview to Suso Cecchi d’Amico
(documentary)
(Short film)
(Short film)
(documentary)
(documentary)
2002
The Boys of El Alamein
El Alamein – The Line of Fire
(documentary)
CINEMA
(screenplay)
1986 Hotel Colonial
1987 Kamikazen
1988 Marrakech Express
1989 Il prete bello
1990 La cattedra
1991 Mediterraneo
Ask for the Moon
Red American
1992 Puerto Escondido
1993 Bonus Malus
1994 Dispara!Outrage
1999 Free the Fish
2001 Off to the Revolution in a 2CV
2002 El Alamein- The Line of Fire
directed by Cinzia Th. Torrini
directed by Gabriele Salvatores
directed by Gabriele Salvatores
directed by Carlo Mazzacurati
directed by Michele Sordillo
directed by Gabriele Salvatores
directed by Giuseppe Piccioni
directed by Alessandro D'Alatri
directed by Gabriele Salvatores
directed by Vito Zagarrio
directed by Carlos Saura
directed by Cristina Comencini
directed by Maurizio Sciarra
directed by di Enzo Monteleone
THEATRE
1993 La fortuna suona alla sua porta!
1996 Gli insospettabili
directed by Raymond Carver
directed by Anthony Shaffer
El Alamein
EMILIO SOLFRIZZI
(Lieutenant Fiore)
Emilio Solfrizzi was born in Bari in 1962, and got himself an arts degree before
joining up with Antonio Stornaiolo (Tata) in 1985 to form the performing duo “Toti
and Tata”. They founded the cabaret theatre “La dolce vita”, the success of which
was assured by the hilarious shows put on by this comic duo from Puglia, also
attracting many other performers on the national circuit. He has recently played the
lead role in two television series of Sei forte maestro, in addition to the sparkling
comedy for the cinema, Se fosse in te.
CINEMA
1996 Selvaggi
1997 Fratelli Coltelli
1998 Besame Mucho
(co-writer and actor)
Matrimoni
1999 Free the Fish
Ormai è fatta
2000 Il grande botto
2001 If I were you
2002 El Alamein-The Line of Fire
TELEVISION
1991 Tigì delle vacanze
1995 Striscia la notizia
1997 Va ora in onda
1998 Nessuno mi può giudicare
2000 Sei forte maestro
2001 Sei forte maestro 2a serie
directed by Carlo Vanzina
directed by Maurizio Ponzi
directed by Maurizio Ponzi
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Cristina Comencini
Cristina Comencini
Enzo Monteleone
Leone Pompucci
Giulio Manfredonia
Enzo Monteleone
(with Caterina Caselli)
El Alamein
PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO
(Sgt. Rizzo)
A graduate of the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico”, he
has attended acting seminars taught by Ronconi, Fabbri, Tiezzi, Stein, Quadri. He is a
founding member of the Actor’s Center in Rome.
CINEMA
1991 Tutti i giorni si
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Pugili
Il Principe di Homburg
In barca a vela contro mano
Dolce far niente
I giudici
Family
La Carbonara
The Last Kiss
La verità vi prego sull’amore
Da zero a dieci
Onde
Passato prossimo
El Alamein- The Line of Fire
SHORT FILM
1996 Baci proibiti
1997 Baby Bounty Killer
TELEVISION
Una questione privata
Amico mio 1a serie
Correre contro
Amico mio 2a serie
Padre Pio – Un santo tra noi
Gli amici di Gesù
Part Time
La Sindone
Ferrari
Il giardiniere
THEATRE
23 scene d’amore
Il dio Kurt
Il dolore del medico
Danza di morte
directed by Edi Bortignoni &
Daniela Liccioli
directed by Lino Capolicchio
directed by Marco Bellocchio
directed by Stefano Reali
directed by Nae Carenfil
directed by Ricky Tognazzi
directed by Michel Poulette
directed by Luigi Magni
directed by Gabriele Muccino
directed by Francesco Apolloni
directed by Luciano Ligabue
directed by Francesco Falaschi
directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi
directed by Enzo Monteleone
directed by Francesco Miccichè
directed by Alessandro Valori
directed by Alberto Negrin
directed by Paolo Poeti
directed by Antonio Tibaldi
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Carlo Carlei
Raffaele Mertes
Angelo Longoni
Ludovico Gasparini
Carlo Carlei
Antonello Grimaldi
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
M. Ferrero
M. Ferrero
G. Conti
G. Conti
Piccoli equivoci
Dalla tavola della mia memoria
Alasya
Il teatro comico
Moliere
L’impresario delle Smirne
Fango
Il cardillo
Altrove
Peccato che fosse puttana
Verso Peer Gynt
Quer pasticciaccio brutto di Via Merulana
Davila Roa
Fratelli Karamazov
Dramma della gelosia
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Pino Passalacqua
Orazio Costa
Sergio Fantoni & P. Ciglioni
N. Guidotti & Lorenzo Salveti
M. Farau & Lorenzo Salveti
R. Craziosi & Lorenzo Salveti
H. Taheri
H. Taheri
H. Taheri
M. Farau
Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi
Luigi Proietti
El Alamein
PAOLO BRIGUGLIA
(Serra)
Paolo Briguglia is a graduate of the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio
D’Amico”. He has attended acting seminars and courses in France and England.
CINEMA
1998 The protagonists
1999 Il manoscritto del principe
The Hundred Steps
2001 State zitti per favore
Paz
2002 Da zero a dieci
El Alamein- The Line of Fire
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
SHORT FILM
2000 L’affresco
2001 Maestro di coro
directed by Marco Bellocchio
directed by Marco Bellocchio
TELEVISION
2001 L’inganno
Francesco
2002 Julius Caesar
directed by Rossella Izzo
directed by Michele Soavi
directed by Uli Edol
THEATRE
1992 Vigilanza stretta di Genet
1993 La pietra comicale
1994 Sacra rappresentazione di
Abramo e Isacco by Feo Belcari
1996 Romeo e Giulietta by
William Shakespeare
Easy (musical)
1997 Calderon by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1998 Il viaggio
Il gabbiano di Anton Cechov
Line di Israel Horovitz
1999 Oreste di Euripide
2000 L’Avaro di Molière
Luca Guadagnino
Roberto Andò
Marco Tullio Giordana
Livia Gianpalmo
Renato De Maria
Luciano Ligabue
Enzo Monteleone
directed by Umberto Cantone
directed by Bob Marchese & Fiorenza Brogi
directed by di Maria Cuscona
directed by Maria Cuscona
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Domenico Polidoro
Walter Manfrè
Giancarlo Nanni
Emanuele Floris
Rosario Tedesco
Jérome Savary
El Alamein
THOMAS TRABACCHI
(Corporal De Vita)
Thomas Trabacchi studied acting under Vittorio Gassman at the “Bottega Teatrale”
in Florence.
CINEMA
2000 Christie Malry’s own double entry
Rome the elevator
2001 Giorni
Caso mai
2002 El Alamein- The Line of Fire
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
TELEVISION
1996 Linda e il brigadiere
1997 Dottoressa Giò
1999 Indagini al microscopio
Padre Pio un santo tra noi
2000 Tequila e Bonetti
Le ragioni del cuore
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
2001 Don Matteo 2
2002 Maria Josè
THEATRE
L’Aminta di Torquato Tasso
Andromaca di Euripide
Storie di niente di Maricla Boggio
Agamennone di Eschilo
Bon voyage
La disputa di Marivaux
Letture poetiche
Il re delle Alpi e il misantropo
Purgatorio
Riccardo II di Shakespeare
Arancia meccanica
Risveglio di primavera di Wedekind
Soldati a Ingolstaadt di M. Flaisser
Mari Carmen di A. Morte
Oreste di Euripide
Lo zoo di vetro
Nella solitudine dei campi di pallone
Fede, speranza, carità di O. Von Horvat
Lassù qualcuno ci odia
Paul Tickel
Gaby Bibliovitch
Laura Muscardin
Alessandro D’Alatri
Enzo Monteleone
Gianfrancesco Lanzotti
Filippo De Luigi
Gianfrancesco Lanzotti
Carlo Carlei
Maurizio Dall’Orso
Luca Manfredi &
Anna Di Francisca
directed by Leone Pompucci
directed by Carlo Lizzani
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Edmonda Aldini
P. Giuranna & C. Puglisi
Gino Zampieri
A. Piccardi
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Walter Pagliaro
Vittorio Gassman
P. Giuranna & C.Puglisi
Federico Tiezzi
Glauco Mauri
Cherif
A. Martino
A. Martino
A. Morte
Massimo Castri
A. Piccardi
Ennio Coltorti
Massimo Castri
Ennio Coltorti
El Alamein
LUCIANO SCARPA
(Spagna)
Luciano Scarpa is a graduate of the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio
D’Amico”.
CINEMA
1999 A casa di Irma
Ritratto di signora
2000 La vita segreta dei lemuri
2001 Vera
2002 El Alamein- The Line of Fire
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Alberto Bader
R. Giudici
R. Giudici
R. Giudici
Enzo Monteleone
TELEVISION
Grantour
Ricominciare
Ricominciare 2a serie
Per amore, per vendetta
Un posto al sole
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Mino Damato
Vincenzo Verdecchi
Vincenzo Verdecchi
M. Cajano
various artists
THEATRE
Alice
Il silenzio
Agamennone e Oreste
Il mondo della luna
Romeo e Giulietta
Metamorfosi
Penthesilea
Il Natale di Harry
Amleto
Il calapranzi
Caligola
La bottega del caffè
Han Shan
Romeo e Giulietta
I rifiuti, la città e la morte
Cleansed
Mojo
Sleeping around
Pene d’amor perdute
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
directed by
Maria Cuscona
M. Farau
M. Ferrero
Lorenzo Salveti
Lorenzo Salveti
Lorenzo Salveti
Lorenzo Salveti
Luciano Scarpa
Elio De Capitani
P. Sepe
Elio De Capitani
Elio De Capitani
Massimo Giovara
S. Sinigaglia
Elio De Capitani
I. Talijancic
N. Zavagli
M. Carniti
M. Carniti