La Tregua | |
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Directed by | Francesco Rosi |
Screenplay by | Stefano Rulli Sandro Petraglia Francesco Rosi |
Story by | Francesco Rosi Tonino Guerra |
Based on | The Truce by Primo Levi |
Produced by | Véra Belmont |
Starring | John Turturro Rade Serbedzija |
Cinematography | Pasqualino De Santis Marco Pontecorvo |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni Bruno Sarandrea |
Music by | Luis Bacalov |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Italia |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Languages | Italian 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.