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Cover image for The truce : Edges of the Lord ; Malèna ; The substance of fire.
Format:
Video disc
Title:
The truce : Edges of the Lord ; Malèna ; The substance of fire.
Publication Information:
[United States] : Miramax : [Distributed by] Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"Four feature films."

The truce was based on the book by Primo Levi. The substance of fire was based on the play by Jon Robin Baitz.

The truce originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Edges of the Lord originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Malèna originally released as a motion picture in 2000. The substance of fire originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Contents:
Truce -- Edges of the Lord -- Malèna -- Substance of fire.
Summary:
The truce: Based on the life of Jewish-Italian author Primo Levi. As a man whose life is changed forever by World War II. His incredible adventure begins after the war ends as he embarks on a thousand-mile journey back home to Italy. Along the way he faces great odds, but rediscovers the simple joy of life that the war threatened to destroy forever, friendship, love, laughter and, most important of all, a sense of hope.

Edges of the Lord: A young Jewish boy is sent to the countryside to hide with a family of Catholic peasants and escape an unthinkable fate.

Malèna: On the day that Italy joins World War II, 12-year-old Renato rides through town on his bike and meets Malèna, a foreigner who has moved into town to be with her husband, but whose beauty inspires lust and jealously in the community. Renato goes off to fight in the war and his thoughts of Malèna are what keep him going. When Malèna's husband is killed in the war, she is taken to court, charged with adultery. Renato must find the courage within himself to defend her.

The substance of fire: A businessman's stubbornness pushes his family company to the brink of bankruptcy, but doing what is right could cost him even more.
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