---
title: 'The Truce (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Francesco Rosi'
released: '1997-02-10'
runtime_minutes: 125
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
  - 'Germany'
  - 'Switzerland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-truce-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117959/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Truce (1997)

1997 · 125 min · Drama, War, History · France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland

Original title: La tregua

## Synopsis

The Truce 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Francesco Rosi](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-rosi)
- **Screenplay:** [Francesco Rosi](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-rosi), [Tonino Guerra](https://cinepixo.com/people/tonino-guerra), [Sandro Petraglia](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandro-petraglia), [Stefano Rulli](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefano-rulli)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Irving Berlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-berlin), [Luis Bacalov](https://cinepixo.com/people/luis-bacalov)
- **Producer:** [Véra Belmont](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-belmont), [Leo Pescarolo](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-pescarolo), [Guido De Laurentiis](https://cinepixo.com/people/guido-de-laurentiis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Pasqualino De Santis](https://cinepixo.com/people/pasqualino-de-santis), [Marco Pontecorvo](https://cinepixo.com/people/marco-pontecorvo)

## Cast

- [Lorenza Indovina](https://cinepixo.com/people/lorenza-indovina)
- [Rade Šerbedžija](https://cinepixo.com/people/rade-serbedzija) as il Greco
- [Anatoly Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoly-vasilyev)
- [Gerda-Maria Jürgens](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerda-maria-jurgens)
- [Andy Luotto](https://cinepixo.com/people/andy-luotto)
- [Ihor Chernytskyi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ihor-chernytskyi)
- [Claudio Bisio](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudio-bisio)
- [Roberto Citran](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-citran)
- [Franco Trevisi](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-trevisi)
- [Massimo Ghini](https://cinepixo.com/people/massimo-ghini) as Cesare
- [Agnieszka Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnieszka-wagner)
- [Stefano Dionisi](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefano-dionisi)
- [John Turturro](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-turturro) as Primo Levi
- [Teco Celio](https://cinepixo.com/people/teco-celio)
- [Aleksandr Ilyin](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-ilyin-2)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-truce-1997
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1077585); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.