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Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Filming Locations

Castle Howard
Brideshead Castle

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Plot Summary

After an unpleasant chance first encounter, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, a student at Hertford College, Oxford University, and Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of an aristocratic family and himself an undergraduate at Christ Church, become friends. Sebastian takes Charles to his family's palatial home, Brideshead, where Charles eventually meets the rest of the Flyte family, including Sebastian's sister, Lady Julia Flyte.

During the holiday Charles returns home, where he lives with his father. Scenes between Charles and his father Ned (Edward) provide some of the best-known comic scenes in the novel. During the holiday he is called back to Brideshead after Sebastian incurs a minor injury. Sebastian and Charles spend the remainder of the summer together.

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Snapshot

Author
Evelyn Waugh
Book published
1945-01-01
Publisher
Chapman and Hall
Screenplay writer
Andrew Davies
Director
Julian Jarrold

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Characters and Actors

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