Product Description
In the winter of 1945, Primo Levi, one of the century's great writers, was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. With the war still underway, he embarked on a thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy a strange, beguiling odyssey memorialized in his book, "The Reawakening." Sixty years later, director Davide Ferrario set out to follow in Levi's footsteps. Retracing his historic trip, the film weaves a path through a modern Europe that has both changed and remained eerily the same from democratic rallies in the East to neo-Nazi demonstrations in the West. Narrated by Academy Award® winning actor Chris Cooper, Primo Levi's Journey is a comic, frightening, and picaresque road trip through history.
Special Features:
- Featurette: Making of Primo Levi's Journey
- Enhanced for 16x9 Tvs
- Optional English subtitles
- Scene Selections
Review
Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious. (Critics' Pick!) --Jeanette Catsoulis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
A startling, beautiful movie. A cinematic, socio-political travelogue, whose music is pitch perfect and which would have been an eloquent critique of current-day Europe even without Levi's prescient ruminations. With them, the film achieves sublimity. --John Anderson, NEW YORK NEWSDAY
A FASCINATING film. REMARKABLE...A richly idiosyncratic portrait of 21st-century Europe. --Ella Taylor, LA WEEKLY
