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"Brideshead Revisited" (1981): :  -- In this scene, Charles (Jeremy Irons) visits Morocco to bring his friend Sebastian back to England.

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18 January 1982 (USA) more
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Two young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian... more
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Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 9 wins & 17 nominations more
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beautiful sadness. more (46 total)

Cast

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Jeremy Irons ... Charles Ryder (11 episodes, 1981)
Diana Quick ... Julia Flyte / ... (11 episodes, 1981)
Roger Milner ... Wilcox (10 episodes, 1981)
Phoebe Nicholls ... Cordelia Flyte (9 episodes, 1981)
Simon Jones ... Lord Brideshead 'Bridey' (8 episodes, 1981)

Anthony Andrews ... Sebastian Flyte (6 episodes, 1981)
Charles Keating ... Rex Mottram (6 episodes, 1981)
Claire Bloom ... Lady Marchmain (5 episodes, 1981)

John Gielgud ... Edward Ryder (5 episodes, 1981)
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659 min (11 parts)
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When filming the scenes during the storm on board the ocean liner, the small cabin sets were made to rock from side to side, but this could not be done for the much larger dining room set, so producer Derek Granger stood on a chair behind the camera and waved a stick from side to side to indicate to the cast which way to lurch and sway. more
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50 out of 54 people found the following review useful.
beautiful sadness., 18 August 2003
Author: gfrancie from Seattle

The book and the mini-series always broke my heart. I first read the book and viewed the series as a teenager and it affected me much more then "Catcher in the Rye".

It is probably one of the finest adaptations of a novel put to film. You watch as the reckless innocent fun of youth is slowly taken away and replaced by sad old cynicism.

It captures the feeling of the stolen season of peace between the world wars and the cool observant eye of Waugh who before hand always wrote detached speedy amoral stories. This seemed so...different.

The acting is so on the spot. Carefully restrained and woeful as we watch our favorite characters grow.

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