WAR WITHIN, THE
This moving portrait of Virginia Woolf primarily shows her not as the famous best-selling novelist, but as a woman raised in Victorian England suffering from her deep wounds inflicted in a society totally dominated by men.
She had a close intellectual relationship with her husband. However; when she sought physical love it was with the aristocratic, flamboyant, openly lesbian Vita Sackville-West. By using old documentary footage and revealing recently discovered letters to Vita and by talking to some of the people who knew her?including the last interview with Sir Stephen Spender?we follow her inner and outer conflicts from her childhood to her nightmare last days before she committed suicide in March 1941.
The works Virginia Woolf created out of her experiences of life, “To The Lighthouse”, “Orlando”, “The Waves”, have fundamentally reshaped the modern novel.This moving portrait primarily shows her not as the famous best-selling novelist, but as a woman raised in Victorian England suffering from her deep wounds inflicted in a society totally dominated by men.She had a close intellectual relationship with her husband. However, when she sought physical love it was with the aristocratic, flamboyant, openly lesbian Vita Sackville-West.
By using old documentary footage and revealing recently discovered letters to Vita and by talking to some of the people who knew her including the last interview with Sir Stephen Spender, we follow her inner and outer wars from her childhood to her nightmare last days before she committed suicide in March 1941.
- Release year:
- 1995
- Available formats:
- Betacam SP (incl. IT-sound)
- Director:
- John Fuegi
- Camera:
- Morten Bruus
- Running length:
- 52 minutes
- Production company:
- Casablanca Film Group for TV2/DANMARK
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