Primo Levi's Journey (La Strada di Levi)
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- Synopsis
- Primo Levi's harrowing memoir If This Is a Man appeared in the U.S. in 1959 as Survival in Auschwitz; historians now regard it as the most critically important written conveyance of the horrors within the Nazi concentration camps....
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- Starring
- Chris Cooper, Umberto Orsini
- Director(s)
- Davide Ferrario
- Distributor(s)
- Cinema Guild
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 93 min.
Critic Reviews
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.Read the full review
A rather unfocused but ultimately provocative portrait of Eastern Europe.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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On DVD: "Please Vote for Me," "Primo Levi's Journey"
08/26/08 The new Chinese documentary "Please Vote for Me" (2007) has an irresistible arc: take a class of average middle class third-graders, give them the opportunity to vote for "class monitor;" tell the three candidates that they have to run campaigns, in order to net as many votes as they can; and let the political process run its course that is, let it corrupt, humiliate and demoralize the children just as they were led to believe they were creating "democracy." | Independent Film Channel (IFC)