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THE TRUCE is based upon Italian writer Primo Levi's The Reawakening, an autobiographical account of his liberation from the camps and the long odyssey of his homecoming. During World War II, Levi, an Italian-Jewish chemist, joined the Italian resistance, resulting in his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz. In the film, Levi (portrayed by John Turturro) once freed slowly rediscovers friendship, love and his own body as he travels with a rag tag collection of survivors. The complex yet sparse narrative uses Levi's experiences and observations as a prism for all prisoners who are baffled by their own survival. As they share adventures in black markets and ethnic celebrations of liberated eastern and central Europe, Levi and his comrades recover their desire to live. Turturro's incisive performance is a wonderful portrait of a man's reawakening and his reaffirmation of himself and humanity. The great Italian director Francesco Rosi was recently honored with the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Akira Kurosawa Award" for lifetime achievement. His new film THE TRUCE has received four Italian Cinema Awards and was featured at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
