An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
- Director
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick(written for the screen by)
- William Makepeace Thackeray(novel "The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.")
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick(written for the screen by)
- William Makepeace Thackeray(novel "The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.")
- Stars
- Won 4 Oscars
- 19 wins & 15 nominations total
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Diana Körner
- Lischenas Lischen
- (as Diana Koerner)
- Director
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick(written for the screen by)
- William Makepeace Thackeray(novel "The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.")
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
In the eighteenth century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton). When Nora gets engaged to British Captain John Quin (Leonard Rossiter), Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, where he saves the life of his Captain and becomes his protégé and spy of Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari (Patrick Magee). He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Taglines
- At long last Redmond Barry became a gentleman -- and that was his tragedy.
- Genres
- Certificate
- PG
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaMany of the shots were composed and filmed in order to evoke certain eighteenth-century paintings, especially those by Thomas Gainsborough.
- GoofsThe narrator states, early on, "About this time, the United Kingdom was in a state of great excitement". The United Kingdom came into being in 1801, when it merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, before which it was known merely as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Quotes
Title card: [End title card] EPILOGUE
Title card: It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now
- ConnectionsEdited into Hai-Kubrick (1999)
- SoundtracksPIANO TRIO IN E-FLAT, OP 100 (second movement)
Composed by Franz Schubert
Piano: Anthony Goldstone
cello: Moray Welsh
violin: Ralph Holmes
Top review
Opulent costume drama from the great filmmaker
Kubrick's adaptation of Thackeray's Barry Lyndon sharply divides fans of the great director's work, as the languid pace and seemingly interminable running time -- not to mention Ryan O'Neal's questionable performance in the title role -- are cherished by some and deplored by others. Little argument will be made against John Alcott's Academy Award-winning cinematography or Ken Adam's production design, however, and Kubrickian motifs are manifest in the gallery of characters' wide-ranging displays of cowardice, guile, duplicity, avarice, jealousy, greed, and cruelty. Marisa Berenson is terribly short-changed in her role as the Lady Lyndon, but a number of other performers are given the opportunity to create a handful of memorable moments -- especially Arthur O'Sullivan (albeit briefly) as the charming, intelligent highwayman and Patrick Magee as the Chevalier. Love it or hate it, Barry Lyndon will remain essential viewing for aficionados of the director, who enjoys taking his usual shots at the more discouraging aspects of human behavior.
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- pooch-8
- Aug 24, 1999
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $198,992
- Runtime3 hours 5 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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