The film was released in 1997 and follows the patients and staff staging their production of Operette by Witold Gombrowicz.
Pornografia is a 1960 novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz.
Opérette (2002) – composed by Oscar Strasnoy, premiered in 2003 at Grand Théâtre de Reims, France.
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From December 1947 to May 1955 Gombrowicz worked as a bank clerk in Banco Polaco, the Argentine branch of Pekao SA Bank, and made a friendship with and Zofia Chądzyńska, who introduced him to the Buenos Aires political and cultural elite.
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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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Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gombrowicz took part in the maiden voyage of the Polish cruise liner, Chrobry, to South America.
From 1949 until 1959 she lived in Buenos Aires, where she led the white linen laundry and befriended Witold Gombrowicz, who later became one of the most famous Polish writers.
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Joanna Siedlecka (born February 24, 1949 in Białystok, Poland) is a writer, reporter, journalist, member of the Polish Writers Association (Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich), and the author of 10 books, 4 collections of essays and 6 biographies, notably, about the lives of writers: Gombrowicz, Witkacy, and Kosiński.
Louis Iribarne is a translator, into English, of works by Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Lem, Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (the novel, Insatiability).