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Primo Levi's Journey

2006-09-12
5.9
it 91m
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.

Sound

Gianni Sardo

Production Manager

Federico Mazzola

Production Manager

Emanuela Minoli

Executive Producer

Ladis Zanini

Associate Producer

Francesca Bocca

Director

Davide Ferrario

holocaust (shoah) biography

Status

Released

Revenue

$166,215

Countries

  • Italy

Companies

  • Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
  • Rossofuoco
  • RAI Cinema