| DIRECTOR: |
Francesco Rosi |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Francesco Rosi, Stefano
Rulli, Sandro Petraglia |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Pasqualino De Santis |
| EDITION: |
Ruggero Mastroianni |
| MUSIC: |
Luis Bacalov |
| CAST: |
John Turturro, Rade
Serbedzija, Massimo Ghini, Teco celio, Roberto
Citran, Claudio Bisio, Andy Loutto, Aginieska
Wagner, Stefano Dionisi |
| PRODUCER: |
Leo Pascarolo e Guido de
Laurentiis |
| FESTIVALS: |
Cannes |
| PRODUCTION: |
3 Emme Cimematografica
Via Alessandro Poerio, 114 - 00152 - Roma
Tel.: 00 39 6 587963
Fax: 00 39 6 5812407 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Capitol Films
23, Queensdale Place, Londres, W11 4SQ |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
La Tregua |
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Col., 128 min. 1997 |
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Francesco Rosi was born in 1922 in Naples
where he spent his childhood and youth. At this
time, taken by his uncle, he became immersed in
the world of theater, of circus and opera. With a
degree in Law, but influenced by his father, a
successful illustrator, he eventually did the
drawings for an edition of Alice in Wonderland.
With an end to World
War II, having worked with Radio Napoli, he moved
in 1946 to Rome where he performed as actor and
assistant director. He was not long in
discovering cinema and became assistant to
filmmakers Luchino Visconti (in A Terra Treme,
Senso and Belíssima), Michelangelo
Antonioni, and Mario Monicelli.
In 1951, he began to write scripts and
the following year directed his first film
substituting Gofredo Alessandrini in Anita
Garibaldi. Three years later, with Vittorio
Gassman, he co-directed Kean. Only in 1958
did he direct a film on his own with La Sfida,
awarded a prize for the Best First Film at the
Venice Festival. Soon after he made I Magliari
(1960), Salvatore Giuliano (1963, Silver
Bear at the Berlin Festival), Moment of Truth (1965),
C'era Una Volta (1967), Uomini Contro
(1970), O Caso Mattei (1971), Lucky
Luciano (1973), Cadaveri Eccellenti
(1975), Cristo Se é Fermato a Eboli (1977),
Os Irmãos (1981), Carmen (1984), Crônica
de Uma Morte Anunciada (1987), Olvidar
Palermo (1990) and Diário Napolitano (1992).
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Based on the
autobiographical novel of Italian (of Jewish descent)
Primo Levi, the film tells the story of a group of men of
different nationalities newly-released from a Russian
concentration camp. They are on their way home after
years of misfortune. They do not form a homogeneous
group: in their ranks are heroes, traitors, farmers,
gipsies, and intellectuals - amongst which Primo Levi.
What binds these men together is the rediscovery of the
world, of life, and this keeps them in a state of happy
confusion, wandering over the roads of Central Europe
enraptured with the freedom they have just won.