Primo Levi's Journey
Primo Levi's Journey

Primo Levi's Journey

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2006
1h 31m
5.9(6 votes)
Documentary
War
History

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.

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Production Companies

RAI Cinema

Cast & Crew

4 members
Directing

Andrzej Wajda

Self

Andrzej Wajda
Writing

Mario Rigoni Stern

Self

Mario Rigoni Stern
Acting

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

Chris Cooper
Acting

Umberto Orsini

Narrator (voice) (Italian version)

Umberto Orsini

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