Primo is a 2005 film directed by Richard Wilson,[1] starring the BAFTA-nominated Antony Sher and broadcast by HBO and the BBC.
[2] This film is a recording of the Royal National Theatre production of the play Primo,[3] also directed by Wilson.
[6] British composer, Jonathan Goldstein, was nominated for an Ivor Novelllo award for the score to the film.
[7] 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.