Director
Sally Potter
Composer
David Motion, Sally Potter
Cast
Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
Edition 1992
94'
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1992
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Fantasy, Drama, Biography
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Dialogue:
French, English
The story of a journey through time, of a man who lives for 400 years and becomes a woman. As a young nobleman, Orlando travels from the court of Elizabeth 1, to the deserts of centra! Asia. There, in the midst of war, he changes sex. As a woman, Orlando returns to 18th century London, where she /aces a choice - marry or lose everything. In the Victorian age, she sacrifices both love and inheritance. Finally Orlando emerges into the present - a 20th century of speed and noise - as an ordinary individual who in losing everything has gained herself.
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Credits
Directors
Sally Potter
Composers
David Motion, Sally Potter
Cast
Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
Scenario
Sally Potter, Walter Donohue
Director of Photography
Aleksey Rodionov
Editors
Hervé Schneid
Producers
Christopher Sheppard
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Dialogue
French, English
Countries of production
Russia, Italy, United Kingdom, France
Screenplay based on
"Orlando" (Virginia Woolf)
Year
1992