Witold Gombrowicz - Film Adaptations

Film Adaptations

  • Ferdydurke (1991) in Polish, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. Also known as 30 Door Key.
  • Pornografia (2003) in Polish, directed by Jan Jakub Kolski. Also known as Pornography.

Nicolas Philibert, the documentary film-maker best known in the English-speaking world for his Être et avoir, made a documentary set in the radical French psychiatric clinic La Borde entitled Every Little Thing (French La Moindre des choses); released in 1997, the film follows the patients and staff as they stage their production of Gombrowicz's Operette.

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