Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Mar 24, 2019

0h 53m

★ 6.6

Overview

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to find new readers and inspire artists and creators around the world more than a century after its publication in 1891, because it was endowed with all the elements necessary to make it an undisputed heritage of world literature.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Hauteville Productions

ARTE

Ciné+

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Marie-Sophie Ferdane

Oscar Wilde (voice)

Éric Caravaca

Self

Pascal Aquien

Self

Charles Dantzig

Self

Merlin Holland

Self

Sandra Mayer

Self

Amélie Nothomb

Self

Mathieu Terence

Self

Will Self

Self

Anatole Tomezak

Self

Shelton Waldrep

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