Summary

Miracle at St. Anna follows four black 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 August 1944 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.

Cast

Derek Luke … Aubrey Stamps

Michael Ealy … Bishop Cummings

Laz Alonso … Hector Negron

Omar Benson Miller … Sam Train

Pierfrancesco Favino … Peppi Grotta

Valentina Cervi … Renata

Matteo Sciabordi … Angelo Torancelli

John Turturro … Antonio ‘Tony’ Ricci

Joseph Gordon-Levitt … Tim Boyle

John Leguizamo … Enrico

Release Dates

Canada 7 September 2008 (Toronto Film Festival)

USA 26 September 2008

Italy 3 October 2008

France 22 October 2008