
Primo Levi's Journey
2006 • Documentary | War
Davide Ferrario
Director
Status
Released
Release date
September 12, 2006
Duration
91 Min
Language
it
Popularity
2.8626
Budget
$0
Revenue
$166,215
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.
Cast

Andrzej Wajda

Mario Rigoni Stern

Chris Cooper

Umberto Orsini












