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MPAA Rating: R Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 06/03/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 58 mins Studio: Miramax Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, Biopic [feature], War Drama

Italian chemist turned author Primo Levi was interred at Auschwitz during WW II until 1945. Following his release, he returned to his native Turin and penned the wrenching autobiographical account of life in the concentration camp If This Is a Man. In 1962, he wrote a companion book, The Truce, a chronicle of his hellish nine-month journey from the camp to Turin. Both books are crucial entries in the history of the Holocaust. This careful adaptation of the second book took filmmaker Francesco Rosi 10 years to make. Levi's trek begins when shortly after the Germans leave, four Russian horsemen ride up and tear down the gates of Auschwitz. Levi is quickly aboard one of the first outbound trucks. Over the next few months, he goes to many different countries, and along the way he meets and is befriended by assorted fellow travelers. Through them, his appreciation of life and freedom slowly returns, but with it also comes a deep rage and an abiding guilt at having survived, a guilt that may have led Levi to suicide in 1987. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

John Turturro - Primo
Massimo Ghini - Cesare
Rade Serbedzija - The Greek

Francesco Rosi's 1997 war drama The Truce comes to DVD from Miramax with a widescreen anamorphic transfer. The Dolby Digital Surround soundtrack is rendered in English and a Dolby Digital Stereo soundtrack is available in French. Closed captions are accessible. There are no special features to speak of, making this a pretty bare bones disc for such an ambitious film. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide