The Truce (1997) on Netflix
After the Red Army liberates Auschwitz in January 1945, Primo Levi waits in a Soviet camp for former inmates. He sets out for Turin with Italian former prisoners of war.
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Plot summary
Primo Levi is an Italian prisoner at Auschwitz during the Second World War. The Red Army liberates the camp on January 27, 1945. He stays for a time in a Soviet camp that holds former concentration camp inmates. There he joins Italian former prisoners of war, soldiers of the Italian Army in Russia, and sets out with them on the journey home to Turin, across a Europe still caught between war and peace.
Cast
- Marina Gerasimenkoas Maria Fyodorovna
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Truce (1997)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Primo Levi was liberated on 27 January 1945 but did not reach Turin until 19 October that year. After time in a Soviet camp, he travelled home through Poland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany with Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia.
- The Truce was the last film directed by Francesco Rosi, who died in 2015, making it the closing entry in the director's filmography.
