Lolita (1962)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriters: Vladimir Nabokov/Stanley Kubrick/James B. Harris
Starring: James Mason/Sherry Winters/Sue Ryan/Gary Cockrell/Jerry Stoven/More
Type: Plot/Love/Erotic
Production country/region: United States/United Kingdom
Language: English/French/Spanish/German
Release date: June 13, 1962 (New York premiere)
Duration: 153 minutes
Humbert (played by James Mason), who teaches French at university, had a memorable experience during his youth when his first love unfortunately passed away, leaving him with a different emotional attachment to those young girls full of youthful energy.
Due to work requirements, Humbert sought housing and thus met the widow Charlotte (Shelley Winters) and her fairy like daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon Hugh Lyon). Charlotte fell in love with this elegant and dignified university teacher and devoted herself to him; However, Humbert became infatuated with the youthful Lolita and even married Charlotte against his will in order to stay with this elf forever. He wrote down all his emotions towards Lolita in his diary and locked it in a drawer. Until one day Charlotte opened Pandora’s Box, their fate changed forever
This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the author Nabokov.