
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.
Primo Levi's Journey
September 12, 2006
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Cast (4)

Andrzej Wajda
Self

Mario Rigoni Stern
Self

Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

Umberto Orsini
Narrator (voice) (Italian version)
Crew (13)
Directing

Davide Ferrario
Director
Writing

Davide Ferrario
Screenplay

Marco Belpoliti
Screenplay
Production

Davide Ferrario
Producer

Francesca Bocca
Associate Producer

Federico Mazzola
Production Manager

Ladis Zanini
Executive Producer

Emanuela Minoli
Production Manager
Sound

Gianni Sardo
Sound

Daniele Sepe
Music
Art
No data availableCamera

Gherardo Gossi
Director of Photography

Massimiliano Trevis
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing

Claudio Cormio
Editor