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Elizabeth The Golden Age
Coming soon, Burghley features as John Dee’s house in this sequel to the popular film Elizabeth starring Cate BlanchettThe Da Vinci Code
Burghley played numerous different locations in the film, including the all the interior and many of the exterior scenes portraying Castile Gandolfo. Additional scenes included the garages at Chateau Villette which saw Teabing and Langdon hotly pursued by the French police and Saunieres country-side retreat where the young Sophie witnessed the Priory of Scion ritual ceremony and a fourteenth century French village with a flashback to the medieval witch hunts. The film crew were on site for five weeks and scaffolding was erected along the whole south elevation of the House as well the recreation of bedroom twenty foot in the air in the Ash Yard. The park was also used for their main unit base in the area with over thirty trailer units and three hundred crew!
The filming was the inspiration for our own Burghley Code, a mystery trail through the fantastic collection of seventeenth century Italian works of art hanging on the walls of the State Rooms. Designed to be fun, rather than utterly indecipherable or maddeningly impossible, in each room you will be directed for a specific painting from which to choose a single letter. Come and visit and see if you can crack the Burghley code!
The Three Musketeers
The GMT Productions adaptation of The Three Musketeers was be filmed at Burghley in August. The house plays the part of the home of the Duke of Buckingham, complete with action shots of swashbuckling sword fights on the Roman Staircase and scenes filmed in the Great Hall and Heaven Room.
Pride and Prejudice
Top British film company Working Title turns to the 19th century world of Jane Austen for a new film version of the beloved novel Pride and Prejudice. Filming at Burghley House lasted from 18th to 22nd July for scenes in which Burghley portrays Rosings, the home of Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Dame Judi Dench).
Rosings is one of the most magnificent houses described in Jane Austen’s novel and features largely when the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightly), visits her cousin and his new wife.The film stars Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton and Judi Dench. Directed by Joe Wright from an adaptation of the Jane Austen novel by Deborah Moggach, Pride and Prejudice is produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title Films, and Paul Webster. The film will be shot entirely on location around England from 19th July to 1st October 2004.
Faithful to the original novel, set in class-conscious England at the end of the 18th century, Pride and Prejudice follows the adventures of the five Bennet sisters--including the strong-willed Lizzie (Keira Knightley) and the youngest Lydia (Jena Malone)-and their attempts to find husbands. When a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends take up summer residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz with hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. But once Lizzie meets up with the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), what seemed at first like a match made in heaven quickly becomes one of the most classic battles of the sexes ever portrayed in literature.
The Golden Bowl
An intricate tale of thwarted love and betrayal filmed at Burghley during the Autumn of 2000 by Merchant Ivory Productions, The Golden Bowl tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nick Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Kate Beckensale), both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat (Uma Thurman and Jeremy Northam), are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and decieit.
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