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.

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

Umberto Orsini

Narrator (voice) (Italian version)

Ladis Zanini

Executive Producer

Emanuela Minoli

Production Manager

Francesca Bocca

Associate Producer

Federico Mazzola

Production Manager

Marco Belpoliti

Screenplay

Davide Ferrario

Screenplay

Gherardo Gossi

Director of Photography

Massimiliano Trevis

Director of Photography

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