Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon – 1975 | 184 mins | Drama | Colour
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.
Production Team
Stanley Kubrick: Director
Franz Schubert: Additional Music
Giovanni Paisiello: Additional Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Additional Music
Georg Friedrich Händel: Additional Music
Johann Sebastian Bach: Additional Music
Antonio Vivaldi: Additional Music
Roy Walker: Art Direction
Bernard Williams: Associate Producer
John Alcott: Cinematography
Ulla-Britt Söderlund: Costume Design
Milena Canonero: Costume Design
Tony Lawson: Editing
Jan Harlan: Executive Producer
Daphne Vollmer: Hair Stylist
Maude Onslow: Hair Stylist
Leonard: Hair Stylist
Joyce James: Hair Stylist
Susie Hill: Hair Stylist
Alan Boyle: Make-up Department
Ann Brodie: Make-up Department
Barbara Daly: Make-up Department
Jill Carpenter: Make-up Department
Yvonne Coppard: Make-up Department
The Chieftains: Original Music
Leonard Rosenman: Original Music
Stanley Kubrick: Producer
Ken Adam: Production Design
Stanley Kubrick: Script
George Akers: Sound Department
Bill Rowe: Sound Department
Rodney Holland: Sound Department
Robin Gregory: Sound Department
Cast
Ryan O’Neal: Barry Lyndon
Marisa Berenson: Lady Lyndon
Patrick Magee: The Chevalier
Steven Berkoff: Lord Ludd
Gay Hamilton: Nora
Marie Kean: Barry\’s Mother
Murray Melvin: Reverand Runt
Frank Middlemass: Sir Charles Lyndon
Andre Morell: Lord Wendover
Hardy Kruger: Captain Potzdorf
Diana Korner: German Girl
