Reference Type: Audiovisual Material
Author: Davide Ferrario
Year: 2006
Title: Primo Levi's Journey
Type: Documentary
Short Title: Primo Levi's Journey
Size/Length: 91'
Keywords: Jewish minority, Holocaust, Documentary
Abstract: In this documentary, shown at the Toronto, Berlin, Rome and London Film Festivals, filmmaker Davide Ferrario attempts to follow in the footsteps of the late Levi's circuitous 1945 journey back from Auschwitz, where the Italian-Jewish writer managed to survive. Ferrario and his cameras logically begin the story at Auschwitz, where the 60th-anniversary ceremony of its liberation is taking place. Then, with celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda on board, we are thrust into Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany and Austria. A journey that suggests decline, ruin or rebirth through change, progress and capitalism. In some memorable jolts of reality, the filmmakers get their cameras into a neo-Nazi meeting in Munich and, later, make a rare connection with their subject in Italy when they meet Mario Rigoni Stern, Levi's longtime friend. Actor Chris Cooper reads Levi's words.
URL: http://db.yadvashem.org/films/item.html?language=en&itemId=6852336
Access Date: 06.10.2014
Name of Database: The Visual Center - Online Film Database
Database Provider: Yad Vashem
Language: Italian