This weekend I watch Miracle at St. Anna.
At the beginning, in 1983, a WWII vet working as a postal clerk shoots and kills a customer. When searching his apartment, police find a stone head. The postal clerk tells a reporter his story in a flashback.
Four African-American soldiers are trapped on the German side of the Serchio River in Tuscany, Italy. They are surrounded by German soldiers and have to dodge fire. They eventually stop in a vacated Italian Village, where they rescue a small Italian boy. They boy doesn't talk, except to his imaginary friend. The four are told to capture a German soldier and interrogate him. The guy the capture deserted his unit after he shot at a major when he was trying to save the Italian boy. A traitor in the town shoots the captive before they could get any info from him (the traitor is the man shot in the beginning of the movie). When the Americans decide to leave the village, one refuses to leave the boy behind, and they get caught in a German attack. Three of the four die. The one that lived was shot in the back, but was saved by the radio he was carrying. The boy gives him the stone head and the soldier gives him his rosary. The boy is lead away by his ghost brother who was killed in St. Anna.
When the movie switches back, it is a month later at the man's trial. In the end, the WWII vet avoids the death sentence, because a rich guy, who bought the stone head, hired an attorney. Later, the Vet meets with the man who bought the head. He gives him the head and pulls out a rosary, revealing that he is the kid from St. Anna.
This movie was really good. I just enjoyed the plot more than the realism of the war scenes and stuff.
Comments
Good! Nice picture of the head!