1 Season
11 Episode
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 Episode 1 Et in Arcadia Ego
I should like to bury something precious every place where I’ve been happy...
1944: in the fifth year of the Second World War, a thoughtful middle-aged British Army officer, Captain Charles Ryder, finds himself posted unexpectedly to Brideshead Castle. Ryder has been there before, and time slips back to when he was an undergraduate at Oxford, twenty years before. There he meets Sebastian Flyte (a young man with a teddy bear) when Sebastian, rolling drunk, vomits through Charles's window and sends him flowers to apologize. Charles visits Brideshead for the first time.
- Year: 1981
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: ITV1
- Keyword: paris, france, venice, italy, england, world war ii, fountain, artist, british empire, friendship, love, romance, religious conversion, gay interest, 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, lgbt interest, general strike
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- Cast: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Claire Bloom, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Jones