Miracle at St. Anna

After a widowed, purple-heart-decorated, Harlem postal worker (Derek Luke) suddenly and inexplicably murders a customer in cold blood in 1983 and a mysterious, priceless marble head from a statute in Florence, Italy, is found in his apartment in this captivating, heart-wrenching, well-crafted, ultimately uplifting, cameo-peppered (John Turturro, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, D.W. Sweeney, and Kerry Washington) Spike Lee film, he recounts to a reporter a riveting story when he and three African-American Buffalo soldiers (Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, and Omar Benson Miller) during World War II care for an orphaned Italian boy (Matteo Sciabordi) while Nazi troops surround them, Partisan Italian soldiers (Pierfrancesco Favino, Sergio Albelli, Omero Antonutti, et al.), and innocent citizens (Valentina Cervi, Lidia Biondi, et al.) in a mountainous Tuscan village in 1944.
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