Movie: Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

Top 6 Billed Cast

Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

Vladimir Nabokov
Владимир Набоков

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vanessa Springora
Vanessa Springora

Herself - novelist & victim of a paedophile

Ivan Nabokov
Ivan Nabokov

Himself - writer

Brian Boyd
Brian Boyd

Himself - Nabokov's biographer

Yannicke Chupin
Yannicke Chupin

Herself - Academic

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2021-09-29

  • Average

    7.5

  • Rating:

    3.8 starts
  • Tagline

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

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  • Languages:

    Français
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