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Irishman Redmond Barry flees his home after killing an English officer in a duel. 

Historic film drama. After killing an English officer, Redmond Barry sets off on a series of adventures. Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning adaptation of William Thackeray's novel.

Young Irishman Redmond Barry has to flee his home after killing an English officer in a duel. It begins a series of adventures that sees him rise from the horrors of the continental wars to the glamorous gambling tables of Europe and marrying into the English aristocracy. But it is his ill-fated quest for a peerage that proves to be his downfall. Stanley Kubrick's witty adaptation of Thackeray’s novel and beautiful recreation of 18th-century life won him a BAFTA for Best Director and Oscars for Cinematography; Costume and Score.

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