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Primo Levi's Journey

Sep 12, 2006 · 1h 31m
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Documentary
War
History

PLOT

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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CAST

Andrzej Wajda
Self
Mario Rigoni Stern
Self
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Umberto Orsini
Narrator (voice) (Italian version)
Directed by Davide Ferrario

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
IT
Budget
—
Revenue
$166,215
Production
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Rossofuoco, RAI Cinema
Country
IT

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