The Truce

10/21/2026

Based on real life events - or perhaps I should say near death events - this follows the fairly epic journey undertaken by Primo Levi (John Turturro) after the fall of the Nazis in 1945. He'd hitherto been imprisoned in Auschwitz but the Soviet arrival saw them all released, or abandoned really, and him determine to return home to Turin. Though he is now free, he is left to his own devices and discovers quite rapidly that what law and order there ever was has now been subsumed into an agenda of survival of the sharpest - and his journey isn't going to prove straightforward. He reckons that a train will be his best option but instead of taking him towards Italy it ends upon taking him further into Poland's interior and to adventures that see him encounter the affable and wily "Greek" (Rade