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Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
- Awards
- 7 wins & 9 nominations
Tatyana Cherkasova
- Irina
- (as Tatyana Meshcherina)
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- TriviaFinal film written and directed by Francesco Rosi.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Primo Levi: [narrating] You who live secure in your warm houses, who return at evening to find hot food and friendly faces. Consider if this is a man who labors in the mud, who knows no peace, who fights for a crust of bread, who dies at a yes or a no. Meditate that this took place.
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Written by Giovanni D'Anzi (as G. D'Anzi)
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One Sensitive Human Being's Post-Auschwitz Experience
"The Truce" is unlike any other Holocaust film I've ever seen in at least two respects. First, it is focused on the return to their homes via the Soviet Union of a group of survivors from Auschwitz. Second, the events are distilled through the eyes of a particular victim, Primo Levi, an Italian chemist and disbelieving Jew, who recorded his experiences in an autobiographical memoir, "The Reawakening," transformed into a film by the Italian director, Francesco Rosi. Levi himself is portrayed by John Turturro, the only name likely to be recognized by an American audience. Turturro is a skilled actor and his performance is marked by emotional restraint. There are some telling scenes in the movie (and improbable coincidences relating to reappearance of characters who had previously departed the scene for destinations unknown). What holds the film together and makes it worth seeing is Levi's sensibility and occasional direct quotes: e.g., "In a world where there is Auschwitz, there is no God." This is not a great movie but it is very good.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $71,448
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $23,165
- Apr 26, 1998
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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