Gli sci di Primo Levi

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Gli sci di Primo Levi (2017)

Directed by Paola Toscano

“L'etica della memoria”

Documentary, History · 1h 02m

Thirty years after Primo Levi's death, Rai Cultura assembles a portrait that refuses to reduce him to the single label of Holocaust witness. Ten scholars, journalists and friends - among them the historian Carlo Ginzburg, the survivor and senator Liliana Segre, and his editor Ernesto Ferrero - each take up a different facet of a man who was novelist, poet, essayist, industrial chemist, amateur astronomer and mountaineer. Running through the film is the testimony of Ives Francisco, the young partisan arrested alongside Levi in the Aosta Valley in December 1943; the skis Levi left behind later carried Francisco into Switzerland and back again after the war, and give the film its title. Archive interviews return Levi's own voice on memory, work, writing and his Jewish roots.

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Cast

P
Primo Levi Self (archive footage)
F
Francisco Reyes Ives Self Liliana Segre Self Carlo Ginzburg Self
E
Ernesto Ferrero Self
A
Anna Bravo Self
A
Alberto Cavaglion Self
P
Piero Bianucci Self
G
Giovanni Tesio Self
R
Renato Portesi Self
W
Walter Barberis Self
D
Domenico Scarpa Self

Crew

Director
Paola Toscano
Writer
Bruna Bertani

Details

Release date
2017-04-09
Runtime
1h 02m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original language
IT
Spoken languages
Italian
Countries
Italy
Production
Rai cultura, Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi