Movie
Vita & Virginia
Overview
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
Details
- Release date
- 2019-05-02
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Mirror Productions, Keeper Pictures, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf
- Gemma Arterton as Vita Sackville-West
- Isabella Rossellini as Lady Sackville
- Rupert Penry-Jones as Harold Nicolson
- Peter Ferdinando as Leonard Woolf
- Emerald Fennell as Vanessa Bell
- Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Ralph
- Sam Hardy as Nigel Sackville-West
- Gethin Anthony as Clive Bell
- Rory Fleck-Byrne as Geoffrey Scott
- Karla Crome as Dorothy Wellesley
- Adam Gillen as Duncan Grant
Crew
- Chanya Button - Director
- Chanya Button - Screenplay
- Eileen Atkins - Screenplay
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