Wednesday,
May 21, 2008
"Miracle at St. Anna" About Sant
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ANNOTICO Report
On
August 12, 1944, retreating SS-men of the II Battalion of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 35 of 16th SS Panzergrenadier
Division Reichsf|hrer-SS commanded
by SS-Hauptsturmf|hrer Anton Galler, rounded up 560 villagers and refugees, mostly women,
children and older men - shot
them and then burned their bodies.
While
I Like that the St Anna Massacre will be getting long overdue attention, I find
it offensive that Spike Lee, who has continually negatively portrayed Italian
Americans in his films, is further insulting Italians in that he is using this
Italian Tragedy as a "background " to what he says his wanting to
highlight the contribution that African-Americans made in World War II. Lee
says that One million black men and women participated.
I
am offended by the fact that he builds a "memorial" based on 4 black soldiers experience, in one of the very few Black combat
units in the US Military. Yes there were 909.000 Blacks that served in the
Military, but less than
3 percent were assigned to combat duty.Blacks were
placed in the non combat service branches (including quartermaster, engineer,
and transportation corps).[http://www.lwfaam.net/ww2/]
The
560 Italian Villagers are an "after thought", as were the 20,000 other Italian civilians
that were massacred in 1500
"incidents" !!!!!!!
AFP
May 19, 2008
Lee said in an
interview on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival that the idea for the
"epic" feature, due for US release in October, was born when he read
the 2002 novel of the same name by James McBride.
The film follows
four members of the 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Infantry Division of the
US Army who become trapped behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied
Its dramatic
climax is the Sant
Scenes in contemporary
Introducing an
eight-minute preview of his film, Lee jokingly called the picture "David
Lean in
Lee said the
historical drama marked a departure from his best-known work, racially-charged
dramatic comedies such as "Do The Right
Thing" and "Jungle Fever".
"I
"I also
wanted to shoot a film in
Lee, who produces
many of his own screenplays, left the writing this time to McBride. He said the
film stood apart from the glut of World War II dramas made over the last two
decades such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of
Brothers".
"Steven
Spielberg
"This is a
very unique, epic, powerful, powerful film."
Lee said another
novelty of the project was shooting several scenes entirely in Italian and
German.
"I like to
have my stuff authentic," he said.
"I don
The New
York-based filmmaker said he had little trouble with the transition to working
in
"Language is
not a barrier at all. Coming into it I thought it would be but it wasn
"We had a
top-notch Italian crew, it was wonderful. We shot in
"Miracle at
St. Anna" is being distributed in the
The film stars Laz Alonso with perennial Lee favourite
John Tuturro and German beauty Alexandra Maria Lara,
a member of the 2008
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