Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man offers an unforgettable sense of the burden of guilt carried by those who survived the horrors of the concentration camps. When Levi was liberated from Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945 his long, meandering journey home to Turin took more than a year.
Davide Ferrario’s acclaimed documentary retraces that journey through Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Romania, Hungary and Germany. He skillfully contrasts what Levi would have seen with the present day issues of prejudice and nationalism that scar Europe and the countries that emerged from the ashes of the old Soviet Union.
PRIMO LEVI’S JOURNEY emerges as a provocative confrontation with contemporary European identity and a moving testimony to the power of Levi’s life and work.
In association with the Italian Film Festival UK.