The Truce

Actor John Turturro delivers an uncharacteristically restrained performance as late Italian writer Primo Levi in this otherwise unremarkable dramatization of Levi's post-Holocaust memoir. In January 1945, as Russian and Allied forces sweep through Poland, the Nazis hastily abandon the concentration camps, shooting as many prisoners as they can and leaving the survivors to starve behind the locked gates. Levi, a prisoner in Auschwitz, suddenly finds himself a free man after Russian troops liberate the camp. But as Levi tries to return to his native Italy he discovers that another kind of struggle has begun: The struggle to recover his humanity in a Godless, war-torn...