The Truce

"At the end of the war, a group of Italian prisoners got lost on their way home. Their journey back transformed everyone they met along the way."

1997

1h 52m

6.2(75 votes)

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War

Overview

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

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27 members

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John Turturro

Primo Levi

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Massimo Ghini

Cesare

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Rade Šerbedžija

Greek

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Roberto Citran

Unverdorben

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Claudio Bisio

Ferrari

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Andy Luotto

D'Agata

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Lorenza Indovina

Flora

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Stefano Dionisi

Daniele

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Igor Bezgin

Egorov

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Teco Celio

Colonnello Rovi

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Marina Gerasimenko

Maria Fyodorovna

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Franco Trevisi

Maresciallo

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Agnieszka Wagner

Galina

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Александр Ильин

Mongol

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Vyacheslav Olkhovskiy

Tenente Sergei

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Анатолий Васильев

Dr. Gotlieb

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Federico Pacifici

Lieutenant

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Ernesto Lama

Carmine

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Kaspar Weiss

Kapo

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Joachim Wormsdorf

German General

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Konstiantin Artyomenko

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Igor Chernitskiy

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Valentina Derbasova

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Олександр Гринько

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Tatyana Yelchyuk

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Татьяна Черкасова

Irina

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Віталій Розстальний

Timoshenko

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