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LIDIA AND GUSTAW

By Elena DE VARDA

FILMLUX - as PROD

Biography - Completed 2021

Lidia in 1944 falls in love with a Polish soldier on the way to the Montecassino front. Gustaw Herling, former prisoner in the a Soviet Gulag became an important Neapolitan Polish writer.“A world apart” introduced by Bertand Russel, became a Best Seller in 1952.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Biography, Historical
- Countries
- POLAND, ITALY
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Elena DE VARDA
- Synopsis
- Lidia in 1944 falls in love with a Polish soldier on the way to the Montecassino front. Gustaw Herling, former prisoner in the a Soviet Gulag became an important Neapolitan Polish writer.“A world apart” introduced by Bertand Russel, became a Best Seller in 1952..
  “A WORLD APART” describes the life in the soviet gulags where Gustaw has been incarcerated in 1939. His life was a long exile: from Poland to Siberia and then to Iran, Palestine and Italy as soldier of the Polish army. Then he was exiled to London, where the first wife Krystyna committed suicide. In Munich he worked for Radio Free Europe. In Paris he created the magazine Kultura and ended his life in Naples, with his second wife Lidia Croce, daughter of the famous philosopher. Lidia and Gustaw met in 1944, but at end of the war
  a twist of fate separated them. In this documentary we interweave powerful literature, great history, a romantic love story and important pieces of art in a poetic way.