Primo Levi's Journey
2006•1h 31m•5.9•Released
DocumentaryWarHistory
In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
Director
Davide Ferrario
Writer
Marco Belpoliti, Davide Ferrario
Revenue
$0M
Languages
English, Italian
Studio
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
Cast
Andrzej Wajda
Self
Mario Rigoni Stern
Self
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Umberto Orsini
Narrator (voice) (Italian version)
Production
Company
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
Company
Rossofuoco
Company
RAI Cinema
Producer
Davide Ferrario
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