Lydia

He took up the camera as other people take the pencil and paper In 1968 he presented his first film Lydia at the Solothurner Filmtage His appearance as a Filmmaker was absolutely unexpected the only lyric poet of the film who succeeded virtually without effort in turning his inner life outwards creating dreamlike images With a juvenile absoluteness innocently arrogant the pale gaunt man had put the following sentence in the festival paper Look what kind of a film Reto Andrea Savoldelli has created for you with five thousand Swiss Francs He pitched himself as First exponent of the Swiss Immigrants Cinema Martin Schaub