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Barry Lyndon

Cast

Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Kr�ger, Diana K�rner View All

Crew

Stanley Kubrick (Director), Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 18th, 1975

Runtime: 3 hours, 4 minutes

In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War.

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I m rewatching Barry Lyndon. I remember during the movie, as a punishment for desertion I think, the narrator said "he was given a choice between being whipped a number of times by the whole regi...

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mark f
The result is that the entire film is gorgeous and many of the shots do indeed seem to recreate Kubrick's intention of making much of the film look like paintings from the period.

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