Biography
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-born multilingual novelist, poet, translator, critic and entomologist considered the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian while living in Berlin. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Nabokov was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959, before...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme
2021
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1891-1977), a masterpiece of Engl...

L'affaire Matzneff
2020
as Self (archive footage)
About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know w...

Razor
2015
Story
A game of destiny or cosmic justice?

Razor
2014
Story
The Second World War is over. But after each war the human destinies are left. This film is about two of them. The former officer of the Wehrmacht. Th...

Longing for Sandy Bay
2011
Book
Workaholic geologist Timothy Deveraux is estranged from his wife, psychotherapist Antoinette. She seduces the big doctor, Dr. Sam Long, before telling...

The Event
2009
Novel
In the center of the painting is the story of the artist Troshcheikin, his wife Lyuba, her mother and sister. They live abroad, in a provincial small ...

Russian Lolita
2007
Novel
The action of a controversial novel "Lolita", of the famous Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, reset to present day Russia. A mother and her daughter ar...

Набоков, Машенька
2001
Writer
In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his...

The Luzhin Defence
2000
Writer
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
A Nursery Tale
1999
Story
Follows an extraordinary weekend in the not-so-extraordinary life of Jinho. The story unravels around the fatalistic pattern of our meek hero's existe...

An Affair of Honor
1999
Novel
Hendrik is a responsible public servant who is deeply in love with his beautiful wife Evelin. Evelin, however, finds their protected life boring; she ...

Lolita
1997
Novel
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at...

Mademoiselle O
1994
Writer
About a young boy growing up to become a great artist. Set basically in St. Petersburg and a country dacha in Vyra during the aftermath of the 1905 Ru...

Mashenka
1991
Author
Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo ...

And the Line Doesn't End
1989
Lyricist
The film is dedicated to the development of culture in Russia. The musical basis of the film is Alexander Gradsky's suite "Nostalgia", written on poem...

Maschenka
1987
Novel
Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

Despair
1978
Novel
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his te...

Invitation to a Beheading
1973
Novel
Cincinnatus C., a thirty-year-old teacher, has been found guilty of the crime "gnostical turpitude", and will be executed in twenty days' time.

King, Queen, Knave
1972
Writer
Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who ...
Bend Sinister
1970
Novel
In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages ...

Laughter in the Dark
1969
Novel
Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.

Lolita
1962
Novel, Screenplay
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at...

Chess Fever
1925
as (uncredited)
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.