About the movie: year - 1998 / 1 hour 53 min drama / melodrama / The plot of the movie “Basil”: The movie takes place in England in the 19th century . The young aristocrat Basil was raised by a strict father and left the boy to the mercy of tradition and class inequalities. For Basil's affair with a woman of the lower classes, Frederick promised to deprive his son of his inheritance. But despite his father's threats, Basil befriends the lower-class John Mannion and falls in love with Claire, the daughter of a simple textile merchant. Basil violates Frederic's wishes and marries Claire. But after some time, he begins to see a grain of health in his father's principles.