John Turturro Movie Recommendations

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One of the best films I have ever seen. John Turturro plays the part of Primo Levi. The story starts the day he is freed from Auschwitz by Russian troops and ends the day he arrives back home. The story is the journey from Auschwitz into Russia to wait out the last of the war and the Italian refugees journey from the displaced persons camps back to Italy. Levi felt he had survived to tell the story of survival in Auschwitz. There are memories embedded in the movie but mostly its the journey taken from his book If you are a reader as I am, consider Levi's books or books about Levi:

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  beginning with Primo Levi's deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levi's most graphic descriptions of the horrors he witnessed and endured there are marked by a restraint and wit that not only gives readers access to his experience, but confronts them with it in stark ethical and emotional terms: "[A]t dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something to eat today?"
  
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  Levi travels home through a carnival world, a Europe simultaneously stunned and ecstatic, a landscape of displaced characters, Greek villagers in Polish refugee camps, complicit Germans sitting down to the first course of horrific recent history and guilt, cadaverous lager inmates staggering into a world forever altered. It is a world populated with impresarios, rakes, opportunists, suicides, daredevils and rubes. But, more than anything else, The Reawakening is brimming with life; Levi makes his way home eyes forward.
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  Published months after his suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all.
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  Levi uses the periodic elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.