The Truce (1997 film)

La Tregua
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Directed byFrancesco Rosi
Screenplay byStefano Rulli
Sandro Petraglia
Francesco Rosi
Story byFrancesco Rosi
Tonino Guerra
Based onThe Truce
by Primo Levi
Produced byVéra Belmont
StarringJohn Turturro
Rade Serbedzija
CinematographyPasqualino De Santis
Marco Pontecorvo
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Bruno Sarandrea
Music byLuis Bacalov
Distributed byWarner Bros. Italia
Release date
  • February 14, 1997 (1997-02-14)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian
Russian
English
Latin
Box office$1.4 million (Italy/USA)

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.