Mercury. Vanadium Part 2
Janet Suzman introduces this dramatisation of Levi's element-themed stories, starring Henry Goodman, dramatised by Graham White. Primo is confronted by a figure from his past.
Janet Suzman introduces a major dramatisation of Primo Levi's short stories about life, work and matter. Starring Henry Goodman, Akbar Kurtha, Erich Redman and Juliet Aubrey. Dramatised by Graham White from the translation by Raymond Rosenthal.
Mercury: 1820s - an English captain and his wife live on a remote Atlantic island with strange chemical properties.
CAST
Abrahams ..... Paul Hilton
Maggie ..... Amelia Lowdell
Hendrik ..... Nicholas Murchie
Willem ..... Leo Wan
Andrea ..... Chris Pavlo
Gaetano ..... George Watkins
Burton ..... Richard Pepple
Rebecca ..... Debra Baker
Woman ..... Katie Redford
Vanadium Part 2: In the course of his work as a chemist in a paint factory in the 1960s, Primo Levi has received a letter from one of the factory's German clients, Doktor Muller. The same Doktor Muller who had overseen Levi's work as a prisoner in the lab at Auschwitz. And now Muller wants to meet.
CAST
Older Primo ..... Henry Goodman
Cometto ..... John Rowe
Dr Muller ..... Erich Redman
Younger Primo ..... Akbar Kurtha
Lucia ..... Juliet Aubrey
Polish overseer ..... Chris Pavlo
Produced and directed by Marc Beeby and Emma Harding
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Major dramatisation of Primo Levi's element-themed stories about life, work and matter.
