Orlando (film)

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Orlando is a 1992 movie, based on Virginia Woolf's novel , starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. It was directed by Sally Potter.

The film was shot on a very small budget in only ten weeks with only 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 Juma mosque.

Orlando was nominated for Academy Awards for art direction and costume design.

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