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Orlando, My Political Biography

  • Documentary

September 14, 2023 (FR)

1h 39m

Power to the people.

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado claims that fiction has become reality and Orlando's story lies at the ro...

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