Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It stars Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger. The film recounts the early exploits and later unraveling of a fictional 18th-century Irish rogue and opportunist who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position. Kubrick began production on Barry Lyndon, after his 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick had originally intended to direct a biopic on Napoleon, but lost
Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jacob the Liar () is a 1975 East German-Czechoslovakian Holocaust film directed by Frank Beyer, and based on the novel of the same name by Jurek Becker. It starred Vlastimil Brodský in the title role. Work on the picture began in 1965, but production was halted in summer 1966. Becker, who had originally planned "Jacob the Liar" as a screenplay, decided to make it a novel instead. In 1972, after the book garnered considerable success, work on the picture resumed. In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is caught on the