Miracle at St. Anna is a film to be released September 26, 2008 set in World War II directed by Spike Lee and written by James McBride. The film is set in fall 1944 in Tuscany and in contemporary New York City and Rome. Miracle at St. Anna follows four African-American Buffalo Soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near a small Tuscan village on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy. The story is inspired by the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre perpetrated by the Waffen-SS in retaliation to Italian partisan activity. There is also a reference to a sculpted head from Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence that acts as a plot device. |||| A group of four black soldiers in the 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division of the U.S. Army during World War II get stuck behind enemy lines after getting separated from their squadron when one of them bravely attempts to rescue an Italian boy. Alienated from their own country, the soldiers find solace in the quaint Tuscan village of St. Anna. Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Omar Benson Miller, and Laz Alonso star in a war drama scripted by James McBride and directed by Spike Lee.

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