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Spike Lee fends off partisan attack
variety.com - 10/2/2008
Spike Lee fends off partisan attack
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International News: Director treated to hostility Italian style -- Spike Lee’s "Miracle at St. Anna" is raising historical hackles in Italy, where the WWII drama — which links an anti-Fascist Italian partisan resistance group to the 1944 Nazi massacre of 560 Italian civilians — is being blasted as misrepresentation.

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FilmChat — ... is both muddled and, at times, laughably bad, but that hasn't stopped some people from taking it pretty seriously. The film, which takes place in Italy, has angered some groups for linking an Italian resistance fighter to a Nazi slaughter that took place in the titular village. Fears of "revisionism" abound, but Lee isn't apologizing to anybody. -- Variety ...

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