Miracle At St. Anna (2008)

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This is the WWII drama that Spike Lee got into his war of words with Clint Eastwood over. Looks interesting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046997/

 

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Yeah, wondered why Spike was manufacturing drama...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Filmmaker Spike Lee was focusing on the past when he made a movie about oft-forgotten the role of black soldiers in World War Two, a war film with both blood and schmaltz set in Tuscany.

But the way the United States has changed since then makes the movie relevant for the present too, said Lee, who proudly sported an Obama T-shirt as he introduced "Miracle at St Anna" to the Toronto International Film Festival this week.

The movie, filmed mostly in Italy, and partly funded there, tells the story of four members of the all-black 92nd Division Buffalo Soldiers who are stranded behind enemy lines during the U.S. army's push up the Italian peninsula.

At times violent, at times touching and at times pure saccharine, the film highlights both the camaraderie of the four soldiers and the tensions between them, and the ugly racism that they faced at home and from their white commanders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN0737868320080907

 

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London, October 1 (ANI): Director Spike Lees latest movie, Miracle at St Anna, has invited the wrath of Italian war veterans who claim that the film is a false reconstruction of their history.

Partisan organisations believe that the film, that retells the story of the massacre of 560 civilians in retaliation to the Italian partisan activity in August 1944, insults the memory of the Italian Resistance.

The partisans uphold the Italian account of the Sant”Anna di Stazzema massacre that it was not a reprisal but an unprovoked act of brutality on behalf of the SS troops where the hunt for partisans was just a pretext.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal...s-memory-of-italian-resistance_100102345.html