The Truce (1997 film)

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.

His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.

[2] Brian Webster, writing for the Apollo Guide, finds the film "a war story with little violence and virtually no sentimentality.

It also won the Audience Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival.

Map of the locations (with modern borders) traversed by Levi in the film.