This is a Swedish Kurdish love story for Italy

by Lea Celik Sommerseth Shaw

After my early science studies at the village of pippi longstocking village, where I also studied children’s literature, I continued with literature and later film. During Bergman’s preparation for Mary, Queen of Scots, I had a brief encounter with him and his team. I wrote a script for my then neighbor Freddie Wadling, but he was recording with Sophie Zelmani at the time and this became one of my first scripts.

Later, in London in my King’s Cross neighborhood, I studied Gallery Management at Birkbeck after following discussions with Hasselblad in my hometown, carried on Film at Ravensbourne and Ealing Studios. During this period, I was in contact with Joe Dallesandro and wrote a script intended for him and Jane Birkin. However, Joe’s wife did not want him to work with female directors, I kept it as my second script.

In Saint Germain Des Pres my kid and I frequently encountered Adrienne Pauly and the Mastroianni family in our neighborhoods. I am well familiar with the king of Italy and this brought back memories from my time in Lund and of Anita a critic of Marcello and Fellini. Yet in my Saint Germain Des Pres neighborhoods, the essence of Marcello was undeniable. I wrote this book as a quiet and poetic love story, dedicated to the golden age of Italian cinema.

At its heart, Marcello Di Fellini treats cinema not merely as entertainment, but as a space of existential inquiry. Indigenous to the Mediterranean and Mediterranean at heart, born on the Aegean coast of Smyrna İzmir with my ancestry Native Kurds of Mesopotamia stretching to Russian peninsula, this is true reflection on the Mediterranean philosophy. Marcello Di Fellini is my dedication to italian cinema, it serves as a timeless bridge connecting history and the authentic Mediterranean philosophy.

Italian and Spanish publication July 2026 with larger publisher representing me and my book, Lea Celik Sommerseth Shaw

10 February 2026 Saint Germain Des Pres