
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
7.9
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Oct 12, 1981 (GB)
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Drama
paris, france
venice, italy
england
world war ii
fountain
artist
british empire
friendship
love
romance
religious conversion
miniseries
in the closet
mistress
university
love affair
period drama
alcohol abuse
alcoholic
expatriate
domineering mother
labor strike
catholicism
husband wife estrangement
marital separation
catholic guilt
englishman abroad
oxford university
1920s
1940s
aristocracy
ancestral home
1930s
alcoholic son
aristocrats
social scandal
society party
closeted homosexual
family friend
british painter
general strike
I should like to bury something precious every place where I’ve been happy...
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
Cast

Jeremy Irons
Charles Ryder

Anthony Andrews
Lord Sebastian Flyte

Diana Quick
Lady Julia Flyte

Claire Bloom
Teresa Flyte, Lady Marchmain

Phoebe Nicholls
Lady Cordelia Flyte

Simon Jones
'Bridey', Lord Brideshead

John Gielgud
Edward 'Ned' Ryder

Laurence Olivier
Alexander Flyte, Lord Marchmain

Stéphane Audran
Cara

Jane Asher
Celia Ryder