Primo Levi's Journey
91 mins
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.
Gianni Sardo
Sound
Ladis Zanini
Executive Producer
Emanuela Minoli
Production Manager
Francesca Bocca
Associate Producer
Federico Mazzola
Production Manager
Marco Belpoliti
Screenplay
Claudio Cormio
Editor
Massimiliano Trevis
Director of Photography