Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

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

7.5(4) 2021-09-29 55 minDocumentaryHistoryTV 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.

DirectorOlivia Mokiejewski

WriterOlivia Mokiejewski

Original Music ComposerOlivier Depardon

Full credits on TMDB

Cast & characters

Denis Podalydès

Denis Podalydès

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

as Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vanessa Springora

Vanessa Springora

as Herself - novelist & victim of a paedophile

as Himself - writer

as Himself - Nabokov's biographer

Yannicke Chupin

as Herself - Academic

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