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Primo (2005)

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Primo is a 2005 film directed by Richard Wilson, starring the BAFTA-nominated Antony Sher and broadcast by HBO and the BBC.

This film is a recording of the Royal National Theatre production of the play Primo, also directed by Wilson. Adapted by Antony Sher from If This Is A Man by Primo Levi, it is a monologue told as a memoir by an older Primo looking back at his life in Auschwitz.

Set designer Hildegard Bechtler devised a symbolist set consisting of a single bare wall and a lone chair with variations in lighting.

British composer, Jonathan Goldstein, was nominated for an Ivor Novello award for the score to the film.

Wilson and Sher travelled to Auschwitz whilst researching the play. Sher was confined in the back of a lorry and German actors were hired to shout out orders to him in order to give him some feel of the powerlessness and confusion Levi experienced during his incarceration. Sher said that he found the play terribly draining; he refused to extend the play or to tour with it.

A further film of the RNT stage production was made by director Robin Lough.

Synopsis

Sur ses vieux jours, l'écrivain italien Primo Levi, qui a été interné dans le camp de concentration d'Auschwitz en 1944, se remémore sa captivité et les horreurs qu'il a vues et subies. Il repense aux privations, aux mauvais traitements, aux tortures, aux morts par milliers. Il s'interroge également sur la manière de survivre après avoir été victime de ces atrocités. Certaines marques, comme le numéro qui a été tatoué sur son bras par les nazis, restent gravés dans son corps comme dans sa mémoire. Un téléfilm sobre et poignant, tiré du récit «Si c'est un homme», de Primo Levi.

Actors

Antony Sher

(Primo Levi)
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