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Romain Gary No Better Way To Say It

A documentary about French writer Romain Gary: diplomat, resistance hero, Knight of Honour, de Gaulle’s friend, director, columnist, and master of mystification. The film challenges myths, revealing that his autobiographical works, long dismissed as fiction, were in fact the truth the world refused to hear.

  • Liliya Vyugina
    Director
  • Liliya Vyugina
    Writer
  • Teresa Rožanovska
    Producer
  • François-Henri Désérable
    Key Cast
    "Himself"
  • Anne Gary
    Key Cast
    "Herself"
  • Elise Gary
    Key Cast
    "Herself"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 40 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    150,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    France, Lithuania
  • Country of Filming:
    France, Lithuania, Russian Federation
  • Language:
    English, French, Lithuanian, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Liliya Vyugina

Independent director, screenwriter and producer of auteur documentary cinema. Born in 1966 in Vilnius. Graduated from the Producing Department of the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. During Perestroika, worked as a producer of feature films, editor-in-chief and head of television programs. Published in independent Russian and international media.
More than 40 documentary films author. Laureate and prize-winner of Russian and international documentary film festivals.

Ülo Sooster. Mees, kes kuivatas rätikut tuule käes (2020) — documentary, 84 min;
Khardzhiev. The Last Russian Futurist (2020) — 84 min;
Romas, Thomas and Joseph (2018) — 57 min;
Master of Heart (2016) — 44 min;
Photo Album of Liya Akhedzhakova (2011) — 44 min;
Forest Brothers. Lithuanian Rift (2004) — 44 min

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Director Statement

The well known French writer, Romain Gary often said that in order to attract the widest possible readership, writers have to replace real facts with certain established patterns. "Telling the truth is pointless. They won't understand us... I tried, and it didn't work." He claimed that literature has nothing to do with reality. We will follow in his footsteps. And we will tell you about our hero, the writer-mystifier, with the help of the author of a book about him, Frenchman François-Henri Désérable. Incidentally, he is a former player on the French national ice hockey team. Désérable will become a kind of alter ego for the writer, appearing on the streets of present-day Vilnius.
He will repeat his journey from Paris to Vilnius and visit the places of Romain Gary's childhood. He will visit the places described in Gary's autobiographical novel The Promise of Dawn. He will work in the archives where family documents and household books are kept...
Fans of investigative documentary will be introduced to archival documents and historical facts that will help shed light on the complex twists and turns of the writer's life. They will see a different Roman Gary than the one who appears in the pages of his works. In the film, he is not a literary hero, not a myth invented for self-defense, not a legend. He is a man driven by powerful passions...
In this Pygmalion story, having created himself twice and "lost control of his own life," pain and suffering are mixed with an insatiable desire for love that lives in the heart of an overgrown child. Désérable is accompanied by a subjective camera. The viewer sees everything as if through his eyes.