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Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

How was an abused teenage girl turned into an erotic icon?
Sep 29, 2021 · 55m
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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.

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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
Directed by Olivia Mokiejewski

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Original language
FR
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Production
TV Presse Productions, ARTE
Country
FR

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