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Primo Levi's Journey
5.9 / 10• 2006• 1h 31m•NR• Italian
DocumentaryWarHistory
Storyline
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 & Crew
Andrzej Wajda
Self
Lead
Mario Rigoni Stern
Self
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Umberto Orsini
Narrator (voice) (Italian version)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Davide Ferrario's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Primo Levi's Journey is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
