Brideshead Revisited
- Drama
10/12/1981
60
Storyline
Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia. However, as his ties to the Flytes deepen, Ryder finds himself at odds with their strong Roman Catholicism.
- Writers:
- paris, france
- venice, italy
- england
- based on novel or book
- 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