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'''''Orlando''''' is a [[1992]] movie, based on [[Virginia Woolf]]'s novel ''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'', starring [[Tilda Swinton]] as Orlando, [[Billy Zane]] as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and [[Quentin Crisp]] as [[Elizabeth I of England|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]]. [[Queer]] icon [[Jimmy Somerville]] provides some of the music.

Actor [[Toby Stephens]], son of [[Maggie Smith]], appears as an Elizabethan actor playing the role of [[Othello]].

The film was shot on a very small budget in ten weeks with a week for pickups and reshoots.

It was particularly acclaimed for its ravishing visual treatment of the fantastical 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 good use of the forest of carved columns in the city's [[18th century]] [[Khiva Juma Mosque|Juma mosque]].

The film goes beyond the novel in that it brings Orlando's life into the present day, i.e. the early 1990s.

Orlando was nominated for [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Art Direction|art direction]] and [[Academy Award for Costume Design|costume design]].

''Orlando'' was nominated for [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Art Direction|art direction]] and [[Academy Award for Costume Design|costume design]].

==See also==