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.
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Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Claire Bloom, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Jones, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Stéphane Audran, Jane Asher, Charles Keating, Jeremy Sinden, Mona Washbourne, Nickolas Grace, Jenny Runacre, Robin Sachs, Michael Bilton, John Grillo, Ralph Nossek, Ronald Fraser, John Nettleton, Kenneth Cranham, Joseph Brady, Gary Waldhorn, John Le Mesurier, Brian Oulton, Andy Rashleigh, Niall Tóibín, Anna Quayle, Bill Owen, Maggie Steed, Paul Clayton, Michael Gough, Stephen Moore, Maria Charles, Stephen Mallatratt, Robert Urquhart, Sally Bazely, Geoffrey Chater, Nicholas Le Prevost, Graham Seed, Simon Chandler, Roger Milner, Richard Hope