Spike Lee is working on his $43 million Italy-set WWII drama “Miracle at St. Anna,” an eight-minute promo of which was screened for the press and buyers Monday at the Cannes Festival.

Based on book by bestselling U.S. author James McBride, “Miracle” will be completed in late July, with Touchstone Pictures releasing the film stateside on Oct. 10.

The film’s story is a true tale concerns four members of the U.S. Army’s 92nd Division consisting of black soldiers, who in 1944 were trapped in a Tuscan village and had to contend with both racist commanders and the Nazis.

It’s about “black men who at the time when they were still considered second-class citizens in America were fighting the Fascists in Italy and becoming liberators of Italians,” Lee told Daily Variety.

“Miracle” is entirely a European production.

Lee called the films production structure a “miracle” that materialized last year after he was unable to find the “right” money in Hollywood for his planned James Brown biopic and a film about the L.A. riots.

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