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The Truce

At the end of the war, a group of Italian prisoners got lost on their way home. Their journey back transformed everyone they met along the way.

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After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

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Released
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Language
Italian
  • refugee
  • concentration camp
  • world war ii
  • based on true story
  • based on memoir or autobiography

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Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical24 Apr 1998
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival13 May 1997
    • Theatrical19 Nov 1997
    • Digital / OTT12Prime Video3 Mar 2022
  • ItalyIT

    • TheatricalT14 Feb 1997

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The Truce was released on 14 February 1997.

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    CinemaSerf

    10/21/2026

    7/10

    Based on real life events - or perhaps I should say near death events - this follows the fairly epic journey undertaken by Primo Levi (John Turturro) after the fall of the Nazis in 1945. He'd hitherto been imprisoned in Auschwitz but the Soviet arrival saw them all released, or abandoned really, and him determine to return home to Turin. Though he is now free, he is left to his own devices and discovers quite rapidly…

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