Lolita

Produced in 1962

Film Information

Festival Edition 2012 - Edition 12

Section Focus on Kubrick

Director Stanley Kubrick

Country USA / UK

Duration 152 mins

Language English / French

Producer James B. Harris

Screenplay Vladimir Nabokov

Cast James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

Genre Drama

Synopsis

Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to a small town for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman’s 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love.