& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

“Miracle at St. Anna”: Spike Lee's take on a whitewashed war
Rome -- It’s early autumn in 1944, and the Nazis are advancing on the Italian front. Four American soldiers deployed to fight Hitler's notorious 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division are separated from their unit behind enemy lines. Soon they stumble onto the site of an unspeakable massacre...
It's a World War II film all right, and while some of the themes may ring familiar, this one has taken the genre in a new direction. That's because the actors are playing members of the Army's 92nd Infantry Division or the "Buffalo Soldiers," mostly African Americans from the Southern states, some 3,000 of whom died fighting on Italian soil. And secondly, because the director is Spike Lee, a filmmaker famous for his sharp, cinematic portraits of contemporary African American society.
So how did Spike Lee end up making a war movie? "Growing up in Brooklyn I always enjoyed war films, and this is one genre I have not done before," Lee said in Rome last December, as he wrapped up nine weeks of principal photography in TUscany and Rome. Called "Miracle at St. Anna," the movie -- which begins in modern-day New York, flashes back to 1944 Italy and ends in present-day Bahamas - tells the story of a regiment of African American soldiers deployed to Tuscany during World War II and the local villagers they meet
Reviews of the film, which opened Friday, have not been kind, many calling it a muddled, overly long film filled with ethnic cliches; it remains to be seen if audiences will embrace Lee's two hour 40 minute epic.
Lee said this particular story interested him because of the
soldiers' inner conflict. I've always felt the black soldiers' contribution to World War II is greatly underestimated...They were fighting for their country but still being treated as second-class citizens at home."
Even so, the director insisted that the film isn't only about the
black soldiers. Lee pointed to a divisive situation in Italy at the time, with Benno Mussolipi s fascist govern merit alSeS wifi the Nazis, who tried to flush out partisan pockets of resistance. "We have two groups of people trying to find a common ground to communicate," Lee said. "The people in the village, which these four Buffalo Soldiers have stumbled into, have never seen black people before in their life...They have been waiting two or three years for the Allies to come, but they never thought it would be black soldiers."
Lee's cast is a mix of American and European actors, including Derek Luke CAntwone Fisher'), Laz Alonso and Michael Ealy (both D.C. natives) and Omar Benson Miller as the Buffalo Soldiers, as well as John Turturro, John Leguizamo. July's Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi and Germany's Christian Berkel.
Lee commanded the multilingual and multicultural set with ease and modesty. 'The Americans are speaking in English, the Italians in Italian and the Germans in German. I did not want any of those "Hogan's Heroes" Colonel Klink characters We want everyone to speak their natural languages. We think this will give authenticity."
The Tuscan regional government gave Lee permission to film in many locations, including the site of the real massacre: Sant’Anna di Stazzema, where on September 14, 1944 Nazi troops murdered 560 women, children and elderly people.
For Lee, 'Miracle at St Anna' sees the fruition of an idea sparked long ago: to make a film in Italy. 'I have been coming to Italy every year since doing the press for ’She’s Gotta Have It* in 1986 . . Italian journalists kept asking me, 'When are you going to shoot an Italian film here? And my answer was: I love coining here, but I got to. find a story first"
He found the story when his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, came across a work of historical fiction titled "Miracle at St Anna." by James McBride. The author's first book was the race and integration memoir "The Color of Water," a national bestseller.