Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme
Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

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

7.5(4 votes)
2021
0h 55m
Documentary
History
TV Movie

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.

Production

TV Presse Productions, ARTE

Cast

Denis Podalydès

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

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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