Primo Levi's Journey (La strada di Levi) 17 years old

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.

Credits

Primo Levi's Journey Cast

Name Character
Chris Cooper He was 55, now 72 years old as Narrator

Primo Levi's Journey Crew

Name Department
Davide Ferrario as Director. He was 50 (now 67) years old Directing
Davide Ferrario as Producer. He was 50 (now 67) years old Production
Davide Ferrario as Screenplay. He was 50 (now 67) years old Writing
Gherardo Gossi as Director of Photography. He was 49 (now 66) years old Camera
Massimiliano Trevis as Director of Photography. Camera
Primo Levi's Journey poster
Primo Levi's Journey (17 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, September 12, 2006
  • Runtime: 91 minutes