Spike Lee Under Fire About New Film

Spike Lee Under Fire About New Film

There are many reasons why Spike Lee chose to make Miracle at St Anna, his new film about the second world war efforts of African American soldiers. Not least among these was the film-maker's assertion that his fellow director Clint Eastwood had omitted black stories from his two war films, Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers.

It was perhaps inevitable that the controversy over the issue would focus minds on the veracity of Lee's own film, And sure enough, it has emerged this morning that Italian war veterans are rather upset about the US director's depiction of them in Miracle at St Anna.

The film's press screening in Rome yesterday saw Lee and script-writer James McBride forced onto the defensive over the movie's linking of an antifascist Italian partisan resistance group to the 1944 Nazi massacre of 560 Italian civilians.

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