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Primo Levi's Journey

[2006, Movie]

Primo Levi's Journey: Review

Italian filmmaker Davide Ferrario's (AFTER MIDNIGHT) unexpected documentary doesn't have much to do with Primo Levi, the Italian chemist who was arrested by the Nazis for being both a Resistance fighter and a Jew and spent a year in Auschwitz before Russian forces liberated the camp. Instead, Ferrario simply uses the tortuous path back to Italy that Levi followed in the months following his rescue. Using The Truce, Levi's memoir of the journey (it appeared in the U.S. as The ... read more