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.
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Davide Ferrario Director · Marco Belpoliti Screenplay Gherardo Gossi Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $166K · First release September 12, 2006 · Produced in Italy
Box office
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$166,215
Production
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
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Rossofuoco
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RAI Cinema
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Italy
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Original title
La strada di Levi
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
Canada · September 12, 2006
Limited theatrical
Italy · January 29, 2007
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
March 18, 2008 · Theatrical
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