Jan Harlan remembers Stanley Kubrick and their time in Ireland

Jan Harlan has fond memories of his time in Ireland with the late director for the making of Barry Lyndon, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

GERMAN film producer Jan Harlan is the younger brother of Stanley Kubrick’s widow, Christiane Kubrick. He first met Kubrick in the late 1950s, but the film director didn’t make much of an impression on him. Harlan was at school at the time. “I had no interest in him other than that he happened to be the man of my sister,” he says.