Orlando is a 1992 film, based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. It was directed by Sally Potter. Actor Toby Stephens, son of Maggie Smith, appears as an Elizabethan actor playing the role of Othello. Gay icon Jimmy Somerville provides some of the music and appears in a cameo as an angel.
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Orlando is a 1992 film, based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. It was directed by Sally Potter. Actor Toby Stephens, son of Maggie Smith, appears as an Elizabethan actor playing the role of Othello. Gay icon Jimmy Somerville provides some of the music and appears in a cameo as an angel.
It was particularly acclaimed for its visual treatment of the settings of Woolf's 1928 novel. Potter chose to film much of the Constantinople portion of the book in the isolated city of Khiva in Uzbekistan, and made use of the forest of carved columns in the city's 18th century Juma mosque.
The film goes beyond the novel in that it brings Orlando's life into the early 1990s.
Orlando was nominated for Academy Awards for art direction (Ben van Os and Jan Roelfs) and costume design (Sandy Powell).
The film begins within the Elizabethan Age shortly before the death of Queen...
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