Vita & Virginia
"The love story that inspired Virginia Woolf's Orlando."
6.8
NR
2019
110 min
"The love story that inspired Virginia Woolf's Orlando."
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Elizabeth Debicki
Virginia Woolf
Gemma Arterton
Vita Sackville-West
Isabella Rossellini
Lady Sackville
Rupert Penry-Jones
Harold Nicolson
Peter Ferdinando
Leonard Woolf
Emerald Fennell
Vanessa Bell
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Ralph
Sam Hardy
Nigel Sackville-West
Gethin Anthony
Clive Bell
Rory Fleck-Byrne
Geoffrey Scott
Karla Crome
Dorothy Wellesley
Adam Gillen
Duncan Grant