Oscar Wilde

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Gregory Ratoff

Status Released

Release Date 1960-05-29

Storyline

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

"At last it can be told… He shocked the world!"