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<em>Rai Cultura</em> television featured Bruna Bertani’s documentary,<strong> The Hands of Primo Levi / Le mani di Primo Levi</strong>, broadcast July 31 2019, exactly 100 years after Levi’s birth.</span></span></span></p> </div> <div class="node-body"><p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US">The documentary goes over the various experiences of the man and artist from the point of view of manual skills, the sense of touch, and manual work as ways of rediscovering how relevant and important Levi’s thought is for us right now. It was made with original and previously unseen footage and with photographic material provided by the International Primo Levi Studies Center – </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US">The narrative follows a dual path – visiting the<strong> places</strong> of Primo Levi and gathering the <strong>reflections</strong> made by experts and witnesses. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US">In this way, places live again, such as Rocca Sbarua [a mountain haven for rock climbers] and other mountains that Levi frequented, the <em>Siva</em> paint factory in Turin Province where Levi worked, and the shops in his stories. The places of pain come back again, from the camp at Fossoli to the Auschwitz concentration camp.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US">The words of these scholars accompany the images of these place in the narrative progress of the film: historians <strong>Anna Bravo</strong> and <strong>Marcello Pezzetti</strong>, who talk about life in concentration camps;  <strong>Paola Valabrega</strong>, the first scholar to take on the “topic of the hands” in Levi; writer <strong>Ernesto</strong> <strong>Ferrero</strong>; <strong>Marco Belpoliti</strong>, editor of Levi’s complete works; architect <strong>Gianfranco Cavaglià</strong>, Ordinary Professor of  the Technology of Architecture; alpinist and writer <strong>Enrico Camanni</strong>; <strong>Peppino Ortoleva</strong>, scholar of the role of work in Levi’s writings; Chief Rabbi <strong>Scialom Bahbout</strong>, who comments about the role of the hands in Jewish tradition; Professor <strong>Robert Gordon</strong> of Cambridge University, author of important research works on Levi; and Professor <strong>Pierpaolo Antonello </strong>of  Cambridge University, scholar of the relationships between  science and writing in Primo Levi.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US"><span><span>Actor <strong>Luigi Lo Cascio</strong> closes the documentary with a reading of Primo Levi’s poem, “The Work”/ “L’opera,” where Levi sums up his conception of literary creation and more.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><div class="container_approfondimento"> <div class="simbolo_approfondimento" style="background-color:#CCDD87">e</div> <div class="testo_approfondimento"> <a href="/en/events-centennial-primo-levis-birth" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="titolo_approfondimento">Events for the centennial of Primo Levi’s birth</a><p>Programma delle iniziative per il Centenario, promosse dal Centro e dal Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni, a Torino e in tante altre città d’Italia e di tutto il mondo.</p> </div> </div></span></span></p> </div> <br> <div class="note_fondo_pagina"></div> </div> </article> <aside> <h3 class="title-aside">Last changed</h3> <div class="link-wrap"> 30 June 2020 </div> <h3 class="title-aside">Persons and characters</h3> <div class="link-wrap"> <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/pierpaolo-antonello">Pierpaolo Antonello</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/scialom-bahbout">Scialom Bahbout</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/marco-belpoliti">Marco Belpoliti</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/bruna-bertani">Bruna Bertani</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/anna-bravo">Anna Bravo</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/enrico-camanni">Enrico Camanni</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/gianfranco-cavaglia">Gianfranco Cavaglià</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/80">Ernesto Ferrero</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/robert-sc-gordon">Robert S.C. Gordon</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/luigi-cascio">Luigi Lo Cascio</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/306">Peppino Ortoleva</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/151">Marcello Pezzetti</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/296">Paola Valabrega</a> </div> <h3 class="title-aside">Places</h3> <div class="link-wrap"> <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/auschwitz-0" hreflang="en">Auschwitz</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/fossoli" hreflang="en">Fossoli</a><a href="/en/taxonomy/term/settimo-torinese" hreflang="en">Settimo Torinese</a> </div> <h3 class="title-aside">All documentaries</h3> <div class="link-wrap"> <a href="/en/documentari">Go to the list</a> </div> <h3 class="title-share">Share</h3>  <div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" style="margin-top:15px"></div>  </aside> </div>  </div>  </div>  </div> </main> </div> <footer role="contentinfo">     <div class="region region-footer">     <div id="block-risorseutili" class="block block-block-content block-block-content67cbc44c-b9ab-4098-821c-20c71fb0c111"> <h2>Useful resources</h2>     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"> <p><a href="/en/link">Useful links</a><br /> <a href="http://opac.primolevi.it/ " rel="noopener" target="_blank">Opac</a><br /> <a href="https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=6512f29f346fb955efbde44cc&id=90ee25029e" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Newsletter archives </a></p> <p> </p> </div>  </div>      <div id="block-contatti" class="block block-block-content block-block-content659e4c87-714e-4d7b-a6eb-73470d38ae1e"> <h2>Contacts</h2>     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Via del Carmine, 13<br /> 10122 Torino<br /> +39 011 436 9940<br /> <a href="mailto:info@primolevi.it">info@primolevi.it</a><br /> <a href="/en/come-raggiungerci">Opening times</a></p> </div>  </div>      <div id="block-sostienici" class="block block-block-content block-block-content88d1fef3-017d-49ab-804f-5370836c7487"> <h2>Support us</h2>     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="/en/sostieni-il-centro">Support us with a donation </a><br /> <a href="/en/5x1000">Support us with your 5x1000</a></p> </div>  </div>      <div id="block-bloccoyoutubefooter" class="block block-block-content block-block-content3871c656-217f-47dc-8011-1b45bf04248f">     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Follow us on</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAcmBp8a4cI-X_Cl5vuUI3w" target="_blank"><img alt="Youtube Logo" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="68e6a562-cf9d-4e52-b477-059ad41d8d64" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/16030_1.png" /></a></p></div>  </div>      <div id="block-partneritafooter" class="block block-block-content block-block-content21e1fb36-7f90-4913-943d-cc8289f90102">     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Partner of</p> </div>  <a href="https://www.polodel900.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/themes/primolevi/images/polo900.png" width="76" alt="Polo del '900 Logo" /></a> </div>      <div id="block-realizzatoconilsostegnofooter" class="block block-block-content block-block-content15ae0185-7bbc-4b8b-a2fb-349cee70637b">     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Site created with the help of</p> </div>  <a href="http://www.fondazionecrt.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/themes/primolevi/images/logo-fondazioneCRT.svg" alt="Fondazione CRT Logo" /></a> </div>  </div>      <div class="region region-bottom">     <div id="block-footerbottom" class="block block-block-content block-block-content2ab3bd32-241f-4b65-9b59-2ed1bb810536">     <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>© <a href="/" rel="noopener">Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi</a> - 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