Primo Levi's Journey

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 12, 2006

Original language

Italian

Spoken languages

Italian

Countries

Italy

Production

RAI Cinema,Rossofuoco,Adriana Chiesa Enterprises

Cast

Chris Cooper,Andrzej Wajda,Mario Rigoni Stern,Umberto Orsini

Director

Davide Ferrario

Writer

Davide Ferrario,Marco Belpoliti

Producer

Davide Ferrario,Ladis Zanini

Cinematography

Massimiliano Trevis,Gherardo Gossi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

$166,215

IMDb

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