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      The Truce

      R 1997 2h 6m History Drama List
      53% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 54% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Based on his autobiography of the same name, the film details the long and arduous journey home of Italian prisoner of war Primo Levi (John Turturro), after the liberation of Auschwitz at the end of World War II. A chemist before being captured by the Nazis, Levi is one of the first prisoners to leave the concentration camp upon its fall at the hands of Soviet forces in 1945. However, his route back to his home in the Italian city of Turin is torturous, with stops throughout Eastern Europe. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member world war ll is over. the concentration camps are liberated. now what. a group of Italian, Greek and a few Poland's. decide to find their way home and they do find some interesting Russians along the way. very well written film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member an interest film , little slow some times . the road back home throw half Europe of a group of Italian-Jew Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member I never would have believed anybody could film Primo Levi's "The Reawakening" so well. Profoundly moving. You should see this. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Good movie that will gives you the feeling to be into Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member While The Truce tells a story that is occasionally compelling and disturbing, the film feels like it has been sanitized. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member For a Holocaust film, it was pretty average. I've seen better. I haven't read it, but I'm guessing the book is more engaging, since that would all be directly from Primo Levi who experienced this, rather than an actor and a director trying to convey emotions in situations they hadn't lived. It wasn't bad, but I've seen movies on the subject that better portreyed people and themes, like Escape from Sobibor. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Rick Groen Globe and Mail It fails to find a way of capturing the fine moral discriminations inherent to Levi's prose. Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 12, 2002 Full Review Stephen Holden New York Times Turturro gives what may be the screen performance of his career. Rated: 3.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review James Berardinelli ReelViews While The Truce tells a story that is occasionally compelling and disturbing, the film feels like it has been sanitized. Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 4/5 Aug 27, 2005 Full Review Ed Scheid Boxoffice Magazine Contains too many characters and scenes that are familiar from other films set in the same period. Rated: 2.5/5 Jun 5, 2002 Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Bears witness to the courage, patience, and resiliency of Holocaust survivors. It is another chapter in the film recreation of the nightmare of World War II. Mar 2, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Based on his autobiography of the same name, the film details the long and arduous journey home of Italian prisoner of war Primo Levi (John Turturro), after the liberation of Auschwitz at the end of World War II. A chemist before being captured by the Nazis, Levi is one of the first prisoners to leave the concentration camp upon its fall at the hands of Soviet forces in 1945. However, his route back to his home in the Italian city of Turin is torturous, with stops throughout Eastern Europe.
      Director
      Francesco Rosi
      Screenwriter
      Francesco Rosi
      Production Co
      Miramax
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 23, 2020
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $149.9K
      Runtime
      2h 6m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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