Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon - 1975 | 184 mins | Drama | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Stanley Kubrick.
Producer: Stanley Kubrick.
Executive Producer: Jan Harlan.
Associate Producer: Bernard Williams.
Script: Stanley Kubrick. (from the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Cinematography: John Alcott.
Art Direction: Roy Walker.
Editing: Tony Lawson.
Production Design: Ken Adam.
Costume Design: Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund.
Make-up Department: Alan Boyle, Ann Brodie, Jill Carpenter, Yvonne Coppard and Barbara Daly.
Hair Stylist: Susie Hill, Joyce James, Leonard, Maude Onslow and Daphne Vollmer.
Sound Department: George Akers, Robin Gregory, Rodney Holland and Bill Rowe.
Original Music: The Chieftains and Leonard Rosenman.
Additional Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni Paisiello, Franz Schubert and Antonio Vivaldi.

The Cast

Ryan O'Neal - Barry Lyndon
Marisa Berenson - Lady Lyndon
Patrick Magee - The Chevalier
Hardy Krüger - Captain Potzdorf
Steven Berkoff - Lord Ludd
Gay Hamilton - Nora
Marie Kean - Barry's Mother
Diana Körner - German Girl
Murray Melvin - Reverand Runt
Frank Middlemass - Sir Charles Lyndon
André Morell - Lord Wendover

Plot Synopsis

A Stanley Kubrick period drama based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. The film's cinematography won Oscars for Art Direction, Costume Design and Musical Score.

Situated in Eighteenth-century Ireland, Barry Lyndon focuses around poor Irish boy Redmond Barry - describing his rise and fall from grace. Believing he has killed a man in a duel, the young Redmond enlists in the army. After his first taste of combat in the Seven Years' War, he's caught attempting to desert and is forced to enlist in the Prussian army. Taking up with fellow Irishman the Chevalier de Balibari, he finally escapes army life and begins a profitable career as a gambler. He eventually marries wealthy English countess Lady Lyndon, and squanders the Lyndon family fortune in attempt to buy the title of Lord, but only incurs the hostility of her son Lord Builingdon.