The Truce (2025 film)
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| Spanish | La tregua |
| Directed by | Miguel Ángel Vivas Moreno |
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| Cinematography | Rafa García |
| Edited by | Ángel Armada |
| Music by | Víctor Reyes |
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| Distributed by | Tripictures (Spain) Ascar Cinema (Kazakhstan) |
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The Truce (Spanish: La tregua, Kazakh: Бітім) is a 2025 war drama film co-written and directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas, starring Miguel Herrán and Arón Piper.[1]
Plot
Set in Karlag,[2] the plot follows two military officers who were at opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War, now forced to join efforts in a Soviet gulag during World War II.[3][4]
Cast
- Miguel Herrán as Salgado[5]
- Arón Piper as Telmo Reyes[2]
- Javier Pereira as Páter[5]
- Fernando Valdivielso as Junqueras[5]
- Alejandro Jato as Freire[5]
- Federico Pérez Rey as Hermida[5]
- José Pastor as Artigas[5]
- Manel Llunell as Palau[5]
- Sergey Ufimtsev as Nazarov[5]
- Dina Tasbulatova as Aisulu[5]
- Diego Montejo[3]
- Sara Robisco[3]
- Altinay Nogerbeck[3]
- Farabi Akkozov[3]
- Daniel Horvath[3]
- Algis Arlauskas as Lavrenti Beria[2]
Production
The film is a Spanish-Kazakh co-production by Spassks99 AIE, Amanat Capital, and Umaifilm and it had the participation of RTVE and Plano a Plano and the collaboration of Netflix.[4][6][3] Shooting locations included the Dima aerodrome, that stood in for the Karlag corrective labor camp, the Lucía mine in Atauri, and the Pamplona Airport.[2]
Release
The film was presented at the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival in 24 September 2025.[7][8] It is scheduled to be released theatrically in Spain on 10 October 2025 by Tripictures.[3]
Reception
Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla lamented that the film fails "due to repetition and schematism".[9]
See also
References
- ^ Enrique, Teresa (1 October 2025). "La Tregua, la nueva película de Arón Piper y Miguel Herrán". El Independiente (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ a b c d Belategui, Oskar (11 January 2025). "Un gulag en el corazón de Bizkaia". La Verdad. Grupo Vocento.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "'La Tregua', película participada por RTVE, se estrenará en cines el 10 de octubre". rtve.es. 22 July 2025.
- ^ a b Rivera, Alfonso (20 January 2025). "Miguel Ángel Vivas shoots La tregua". Cineuropa.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "La tregua". Plano a Plano. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Se está rodando 'La tregua', nuevo largometraje de Miguel Ángel Vivas". Camera & Light Mag. 20 December 2024.
- ^ "RTVE presenta sus nuevas producciones en el Festival de cine de San Sebastián". ABC.
- ^ "La tregua / The Truce". San Sebastián International Film Festival (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ Lombardo, Manuel J. (10 October 2025). "Suspiros (helados) de España". Diario de Sevilla. Grupo Joly.