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Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex.
Orlando, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love, poetry, a place in society and a meaning in life, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest, accompanied by the features of "noble" English life with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person, let alone his sex. Orlando, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life, love, and approaching ones own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and havent aged a day, finding humanitys forgotten need for androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughters. Sally Potters adaptation of Virginia Woolfs Orlando not only tells the story on film with brilliant visual design, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century.
Tilda Swinton
Orlando
Billy Zane
Shelmerdine
Quentin Crisp
Queen Elizabeth I
Jimmy Somerville
Singer
John Bott
Orlando's Father
Elaine Banham
Orlando's Mother
Anna Farnworth
Clorinda
Sara Mair-Thomas
Favilla
Anna Healy
Euphrosyne
Dudley Sutton
King James I
Simon Russell Beale
Earl of Moray
Matthew Sim
Lord Francis Vere
Jerome Willis
Translator
Viktor Stepanov
Russian Ambassador
Charlotte Valandrey
Princess Sasha
Mary MacLeod
First Woman
Barbara Hicks
Second Woman
Aleksandr Medvedev
Russian Sailor
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