Primo (2005 film)
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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 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.
2005 in film
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film directed by Richard Wilson, starring the BAFTA-nominated Antony Sher
Antony Sher
Sir Antony Sher, KBE is a double Olivier Award winning South African-born British actor, writer, theatre director and painter.- Early years :...
and broadcast by HBO and the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
.
This film is a recording of the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
production of the play Primo, also directed by Wilson. Adapted by Antony Sher
Antony Sher
Sir Antony Sher, KBE is a double Olivier Award winning South African-born British actor, writer, theatre director and painter.- Early years :...
from If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
, 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
Jonathan Goldstein (composer)
Jonathan Goldstein is an award-winning British composer of music for film, television, advertising, theatre and live events, whose work encompasses a range of contemporary classical styles with orchestral, jazz, electro-acoustic & world influences.-Biography:...
, 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 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.