Primo Levi's Journey

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MOVIE

Primo Levi's Journey

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.

Original Title

La strada di Levi

Release Date

2006-09-12

Year

2006

Duration

1h 31m

Status

Released

Score

5.90

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Cast

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Mario Rigoni Stern

Mario Rigoni Stern

Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

Umberto Orsini

Umberto Orsini

Narrator (voice) (Italian version)