Miracle at St. Anna Page #3

Synopsis: Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish forty years later. And the miracle?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
2008
160 min
$7,756,328
Website
318 Views


Buffalo soldiers, welcome to the war.

[woman on loudspeaker]

We've been waiting for you.

Do you know our German Wehrmacht

has been here digging bunkers

for six months on the Gothic Line?

Waiting.

Your white commanders

won't tell you that, of course.

Why? Because they

don't care if you die.

[whimpering]

But the German people have

nothing against the Negro.

That's why I'm warning you now,

with all my heart and soul.

Save yourself, Negro brothers.

Why die for a nation

that doesn't want you?

A nation that treats you like a slave.

Did I say slave?

Yes, I did.

[speaking German]

Why don't they shut her up?

What is she saying?

Berlin can afford to pipe

that garbage all the way here

but can't give us potato soup.

Individual guns only, on my command.

We have enough ammo

for an hour, maybe two.

[woman] Look around you.

Do you see any white soldiers

in the river next to you?

Are they sending any white

soldiers to die with you today?

- Of course not!

- [man] Steady, ya'll. Adolf Hitler.

Spreadin' that nonsense.

Don't believe a word of that!

Lyin' bastard thinks we monkeys,

apes, baboons, subhuman.

Show him who we are.

[woman] Think of your poor children,

your families suffering at home.

The American white man

is raping your wives and daughters.

Jody is busy right now in your

bedroom, with your wife,

your daughters, even your sons.

And who will stop him if you die today?

Do you think the profitmongers

in Washington, D.C.

care about your children?

They're not thinking of your children!

They're home right now.

Asleep, in a nice warm bed.

Think about the sacrifice

you're making,

just for the privilege of being

second-class citizens back home.

Where can you vote?

Come to the winning side

and, please, teach me those dances.

That Lindy Hop and the Black Bottom.

War is folly, boys.

Better to drop your guns,

give up and dance!

Come out of that cold water, cats!

[speaking German]

You got any more biscuits?

No.

- Or anything else?

- Not for you.

I'll give you money

for a vitamin biscuit.

Go over and beg the Blacks.

What about you?

You a replacement?

65th Army Corps.

I thought they were freezing

their asses off in Russia.

- So?

- You got any biscuits?

No.

They must have given you something.

If I die, you can have all my rations,

but for now,

SHUT THE F*** UP!!!

I got a hole in my stomach.

[woman] Come on over.

Feel the warmth of the German people.

[speaking German] I can't hear a thing

over that damn whore's prattling.

[woman] We have hot food,

fried chicken,

greens, candied yams

and even delicious biscuits

straight from the oven,

just like your mama cooks.

Hey, boys.

I have two big white biscuits

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