Orlando

E391380
British film fantasy film film period film

Orlando is a 1992 British period fantasy film, based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, in which Tilda Swinton plays an androgynous noble who lives for centuries while changing gender.

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Label Occurrences
Orlando canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British film ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ
film ⓘ
period film ⓘ
artDirectionBy Ben Van Os ⓘ
Jan Roelfs ⓘ
awardNomination Academy Award for Best Art Direction ⓘ
surface form: Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Academy Award for Best Costume Design ⓘ
basedOn "Orlando: A Biography" ⓘ
surface form: Orlando: A Biography
basedOnWorkAuthor Virginia Woolf ⓘ
cinematography Aleksei Rodionov NERFINISHED ⓘ
costumeDesigner Sandy Powell ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
director Sally Potter ⓘ
distributor Sony Pictures Classics ⓘ
editedBy Hervé Schneid NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuresTheme androgyny ⓘ
gender identity ⓘ
immortality ⓘ
social roles ⓘ
filmingLocation Russia ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
genre LGBT-related film ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ
period drama ⓘ
language English ⓘ
musicBy David Motion ⓘ
Sally Potter ⓘ
narrativeDevice protagonist does not age for centuries ⓘ
notableFor Tilda Swinton’s androgynous performance ⓘ
innovative adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel ⓘ
plotSummary An androgynous nobleman named Orlando lives for centuries and changes sex from male to female. ⓘ
producer Christopher Sheppard ⓘ
Sally Potter ⓘ
productionCompany Adventure Pictures ⓘ
releaseYear 1992 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 94 ⓘ
screenwriter Sally Potter ⓘ
setAcrossCenturies Yes ⓘ
starring Billy Zane ⓘ
Charlotte Valandrey ⓘ
Heathcote Williams ⓘ
John Wood ⓘ
Lothaire Bluteau ⓘ
Quentin Crisp ⓘ
Tilda Swinton ⓘ
timePeriodDepicted 17th century ⓘ
18th century ⓘ
19th century ⓘ
20th century ⓘ
English Renaissance ⓘ
surface form: Elizabethan era

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Tilda Swinton → notableWork → Orlando ⓘ
Sandy Powell → notableWork → Orlando ⓘ
Orlando: A Biography → mainCharacter → Orlando ⓘ
Portrait of Virginia Woolf → depictedPersonNotableWork → Orlando ⓘ
Katherine Matilda Swinton → notableWork → Orlando ⓘ