Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme (2021)

09/29/2021 (FR) • 55m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

How was an abused teenage girl turned into an erotic icon?

Overview

A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1891-1977), a masterpiece of English-language literature that has been constantly misinterpreted by countless readers who have mistakenly turned its young heroine into an erotic icon.

Top Billed Cast

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

Vladimir Nabokov

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vanessa Springora

Herself - novelist & victim of a paedophile

Ivan Nabokov

Himself - writer

Brian Boyd

Himself - Nabokov's biographer

Yannicke Chupin

Herself - Academic


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Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

based on true story

social documentary

documentary

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