Lolita | Adaptations
Several of Nabokov's novels have been made into films: Laughter in the Dark (1969, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina, and Sian Phillips); King, Queen, Knave (1972, starring David Niven and Gina Lollobrigida); and Despair (1978/ 79, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, screenplay by Tom Stoppard, starring Dirk Bogarde and Andrea Ferreol). These films are generally shown very little.
Not surprisingly, the most often adapted of Nabokov's novels is Lolita. A British film was made in 1962, directed by Stanley Kubrick and...
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