John Turturro, Teco Cerlio, Massimo Ghini, Rade Serbedzija, Claudio Bisio, Stefano Dionisi, Roberto Citran, Andy Luotto, Agnieszka Wagner

LA TREGUA

Film presented by TECO CELIO

 

The film is adapted from Primo Levi’s second novel on the concentration camp experience. After Russian soldiers liberate Auschwitz, Primo and the other prisoners are faced with the long journey home. They are joined by Italian prisoners of war, headed by Colonel Rovi (Teco Celio). On foot or on trains that change destination or are requisitioned by the Red Army to transport troops, the former prisoners find themselves first going east and only later, after a long wait in which hope alternates with despair, to the south and west.
«Through this film I wanted to recount the odyssey of the return to life of a group of human beings who had escaped the heinous Nazi plan to deliberately exterminate Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, political dissenters, the mentally ill and everyone who «differed» from the Aryan race. The theme of life resuscitated after enduring this madness is an enormous inspiration for meditating on today’s foul deeds as well. What stimulated me most was showing on the screen what Levi seemed to recount so easily: the winning back of life and the return of hope through the natural, small, big and joyous occasions of daily existence, which end up by affirming life’s triumph over death.» (Francesco Rosi).

Teco Celio

 

Born in 1952 in Lugano, after an internship as a journalist with the Agenzia Telegrafica Svizzera, he received a journalism degree from the University of Fribourg. At age 23 he moved to Paris, where he attended Jacques Lecoq’s acting school. From Paris, where he worked in film and television, he maintained his Swiss contacts and during the eighties acted in films directed by Daniel Schmid, Francis Reusser, Alain Tanner, Villi Hermann. In the nineties he performed in Vollmond, directed by Fredi M. Murer, in Fourbi, directed by Alain Tanner, in Fondovalle directed by Paolo Poloni and shot in Ticino, and in important European co-productions (Trois couleurs: Rouge, directed by Kieslowski, Rosi’s La Tregua). Since 1998 he has been playing captain Paul Moreau in the TV series on France 2, La Crim, very popular with French audiences. Swiss citizenship.

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