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The Truce
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TURTURRO,JOHN
EAN: 0786936206517
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), Polish (Original Language), Russian (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 786936206517
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: April 24, 1998
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Editorial Review:
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A touching account of a survivor's journey home
Primo Levi, the Italian chemist, Auschwitz survivor and renowned author of works like "Survival in Auschwitz" was an amazing person, a true survivor who refused to forget the horrors that he had endured in Auschwitz and ensured that the world would know of Nazi atrocities through his writing.
In 'The Truce", based on Primo Levi's own experiences, actor John Turturro [in a stirring performance] brings to life the long journey undertaken by Levi from liberation [from Auschwitz by the Red ... Read More
Rating:  - interesting movie about back to home
very different approach to war cinema...congratulations to the director and the cast...they've told the story of back to home after war in a very different way...
Rating: - Primo's odyssey back to the living . . .
"God does not exist, if Aushwitz exists," says Primo on the train. Truce shows something else . . . how a man's soul cannot be destroyed. Truce is a travelogue through the chaos of post war Europe. Beginning in Aushwitz, Primo and has band of brothers traverse the wilds of Poland, Russia, and, finally, Munich en route to their home. Their souls are slowly reborn. They find love, compassion and a simple appreciation of nature before landfall in Italy. By chance, by laugh, they complete their journey ... Read More
Rating:  - Unrealistic
Having read most of the reviews in relation to "The Truce" - I think I am going to find myself in a minority of one.
I bought this DVD because I thought that the storyline was interesting and because of the good reviews.
However,having now watched it twice I found that most of the acting and the scenarios defided credibility.
Right from the start when we saw the alledged inmates of Auschwitz virtually running to the open gates - a situation which,to anyone who has seen original footage ... Read More
Rating: - THE best film I've seen in years .
THE best film I've seen in years .
Primo ( John Turturro in his best role )is a survivor of Auschwitz , survivor of Holocaust . He is Italian Jew saved by Russians at the end of WWII . All he wants is so simple - just to go home . But railroads are destroyed and he has to make a detour true Minsk ( Minsk is a capital of Belorussia . Minsk is a hometown of my mother . Minsk is the city where only 4 buildings was still standing after WWII . Minsk is the city which my mother had to leave when she was 2 ... Read More
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