Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

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

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.

Documentary History TV Movie

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)