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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
Primo Levi's Journey

Summary Primo Levi’s Journey is a picaresque road trip through history. In 1945, famous writer Primo Levi, was released from Auschwitz and took a thousand-mile walk through war torn Europe to return to his home in Turin, Italy. This documentary pieces together that journey.

Directed By: Davide Ferrario

Written By: Primo Levi, Marco Belpoliti, Davide Ferrario

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m

Primo Levi's Journey

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Summary Primo Levi’s Journey is a picaresque road trip through history. In 1945, famous writer Primo Levi, was released from Auschwitz and took a thousand-mile walk through war torn Europe to return to his home in Turin, Italy. This documentary pieces together that journey.

Directed By: Davide Ferrario

Written By: Primo Levi, Marco Belpoliti, Davide Ferrario

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Mixed
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For while the idea of comparing the Europe of 60 years ago to the Europe of today sounds didactic, the results are anything but. Ferrario turns out to have a delicate, unforced eye for elegant counterpoints, and his style unobtrusively draws you into the journey.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
80
Fascinating.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
70
Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Primo Levi's Journey is a profound meditation on the unevenness of history, reminding us -- as Faulkner once remarked -- that the past not only isn't dead, it isn't really past at all.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
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Sensitive, sobering, and tinged with respectful melancholy, Primo Levi's Journey retraces the enforced peregrinations of the great Italian chemist following his release from Auschwitz.
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The film lacks a certain coherence, and Levi - one of Italy's most important postwar writers - is mostly relegated to an excuse for a sociopolitical travelogue.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
60
Primo Levi's Journey is almost willfully opaque about the actual circumstances of Primo Levi's journey. Who exactly was this man we're meant to be paying homage to, and why did it take him so long to get home?
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Production Company Rossofuoco, Rai Cinema, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC)
Release Date Aug 17, 2007
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.chrysalis-films.com/LE_VOYAGE_DE_PRIMO_LEVI.html
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