A journey lasting one hundred years. In fact, in 1921 "Sea and Sardinia" was published, one of the best known travel books in the Mediterranean Sea and the work of the English writer David Herbert Lawrence, also author of various masterpieces of English literature including Lady Chatterley's Lover.
One hundred years later, a film celebrates the writer's journey, retracing his path. It is "Return to sea and Sardinia", by the director Daniele Marzeddu.
"In 2018 my partner and I started in Lawrence's footsteps in the East Midlands, where we live," says the director, "we wanted to create cultural bridges between Great Britain and other territories beyond the sea." Marzeddu, 43, shares a destiny with Lawrence: "I am linked to three islands because I live in England, I lived in Sicily, and my origins are Sardinian. My grandfather was from Santu Lussurgiu." The film was supported by the Sardegna Film Commission - Location Fund Scouting, and the support of the Cineteca Sarda Humanitarian Society, and is produced by the cultural association The Visual Guys.
In the film, the director retraces the path of Lawrence and visits various places in Sicily including Taormina, where Lawrence lived, and in Sardinia he travels along the path of the Trenino Verde. Furthermore, numerous films of families dating back to the 1920s and preserved by the Cineteca Sarda have been included.
The film will soon be available online, and was presented last weekend after a conference at the University of Cagliari with leading experts on Lawrence's work.
