Barry Lyndon is a movie by
Stanley Kubrick based on the novel
The Luck of Barry Lyndon by
William Makepeace Thackeray. Kubrick used
lenses developed by
Zeiss for
NASA which allowed him to shoot many of the scenes using natural light, including a scene of nightime card play shot in candlelight. Shooting this way produced a flatter image, allowing Kubrick to present his 18th Century settings in a way that nearly replicated paintings of the period.
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.........Reverend Runt
Frank Middlemass......Sir Charles Lyndon
André Morell..........Lord Wendover
Arthur O'Sullivan.....Highwayman
Godfrey Quigley.......Captain Grogan
Leonard Rossiter......Captain Quin
Philip Stone..........Graham
Leon Vitali...........Lord Bullingdon
David Morley..........Brian Lyndon
Dominic Savage........Lord Bullingdon (younger)
Geoffrey Chater
Pat Roach
George Sewell
Michael Hordern.......Narrator
