The Truce (1997)

Original title

La tregua

Directed by

Francesco Rosi

Genre

drama film, war film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

12

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man travels home after surviving a Nazi concentration camp at the end of World War Two. The movie follows his long and difficult journey across Europe as he encounters other displaced people.

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What happens

The Truce (Italian: La Tregua) is a 1997 film directed by Francesco Rosi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia, and its story treatment with Tonino Guerra based on Primo Levi's memoir, The Truce. The film deals with Primo Levi's experiences returning to Italy in 1945 after the Red Army liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. This was Rosi's final film before his death in 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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