I watched a copy of The Truce on VHS last night my mom bought it for like a doller some years ago at some video store that was going out of business. I poped it in because of my interest in films portraed during the world war two era. I figured since i saw the American actor from do the right thing (john turturro)on the cover, as the star actor that he was going to be portraying an native Italian, speaking English and i was right.Had john turturro been speaking Italian. At least to to his fellow italians this film would have been more memorable. I gave this film 3 stars for the part where it shows the Greek guy going back to his country first.And telling john turturro and the other italians that he was getting beter treatment because his country was in the united nations and that john turturro and his Italian people's had lost the war.The Greek Greek guy's character was entertaining. the story wasn't bad. I liked that map of all the direction that john turturro took. that they showed at the end. OK the Title. "The Truce" I can not pin point why this movie is called The Truce. I'm guessing because of the personall relationships john turturro has with people while he is trying to get back to italy. But it is not clear their is no clear "truce" portrayed. The part where he see's the German solder in munich and then the German soldier see's him and then the German soldier get's on his knee's and bow's to john turturro. Did that actually Happen? Anyway all i can say is i watched the whole thing.it's not that bad. it's not that good either.

The novel of Primo Levi is only pretext for build a strange parable. The spirit or the essence of book are absent in this cruel Odyssey. It is not a story about hope or freedom. It is not a moral lesson or image of old tragedy. It is not a movie, but only a trip in the past shadows essence. In many aspects, it is another Radu Mihailescu's "Train de vie". But the message is more harsh and hopeless. The war and the return to home are fruits of ambiguous nostalgia but their crux is always chimera. The land, the life, the words are more different and the old places are elements of "Tystnaden".The fundamental value of film is art of suggestion. The tale of returning is message for survivors of crisis or victims of expectation. in fact, the illusions are life's bricks.

I watched this during the Liberation Day weekend along with 4 other Holocaust-themed movies so it was a bit of a challenge. The movie was good enough but the dialogue was rather chaotic. You had the Russians speaking Russian and the Germans screaming their heads off in German but how is it that the central Italian characters spoke English? I was in Rome recently and I must say they are very seriously inadequate in English there and I doubt it was any different especially in WWII. I could understand if the lead character and the Greek spoke in English but the other Italian characters all spoke English too. Perhaps it was necessary to reach a wider audience but the authenticity wasn't there. However, the movie did show subtle signs of the various myths of the Holocaust like when Primo Levi (John Turturro) tried to sell his wares in the Polish market but was shunned against; I had heard that the Poles practically handed the Jews to the Germans on a silver plate so Primo's experience showed a little of what the Poles were really like. I thought John Turturro did a brilliant job; he was almost unrecognisable. This movie did show how it was like after the fall of Berlin; the German soldiers were made to work without food and how one of them fell on his knees when Primo Levi showed his concentration camp uniform to him. It showed very subtle signs of the Holocaust but focused more on their journey home and how they tried to cope with their newfound freedom and the fact that their peers, friends and family were all gased and they survived. It was a good movie but it could've been better.

This movie had nothing but promise. It was a very slow moving film and the dialect was extremely difficult to understand. I hate saying anything bad about it, seeing as if it deals with an incredible subject - it just moved too slowly for my vote to turtle above a 6.