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Fanny and Alexander
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Cast
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Pernilla Allwin | ... | |
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Bertil Guve | ... | |
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Börje Ahlstedt | ... | |
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Allan Edwall | ... | |
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Ewa Fröling | ... | |
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Gunn Wållgren | ... |
Ekdahlska huset - Helena Ekdahl
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Jan Malmsjö | ... |
Biskopsgården - Bishop Edvard Vergerus
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Christina Schollin | ... | |
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Kerstin Tidelius | ... |
Biskopsgården - Henrietta Vergerus
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Emelie Werkö | ... | |
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Marianne Aminoff | ... |
Biskopsgården - Blenda Vergérus
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Sonya Hedenbratt | ... | |
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Svea Holst | ... | |
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Kristina Adolphson | ... | |
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The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable. The film dramatizes and resolves those conflicts. A sub-plot features Isak, a local Jewish merchant who is the grandmother's lover and whose odd household becomes the children's refuge. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Release Date:
17 December 1982 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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SEK 21,041,492 (Sweden)Company Credits
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Jacobis hus - Isak Jacobi: I'm certainly not. Everything's getting worse. Worse people, worse machines, worse wars... and worse weather. I'm glad I'll soon be dead.
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Among the Christmas decorations in the Ekdahl house, there is a garland of miniature flags of Scandinavian countries, including the Finnish flag. The Finnish flag was in fact only designed and adopted after Finnish independence in 1917, a decade after the events of the film. See more »Quotes
Ekdahlska huset - Helena Ekdahl: Are you sad because you've grown old?Jacobis hus - Isak Jacobi: I'm certainly not. Everything's getting worse. Worse people, worse machines, worse wars... and worse weather. I'm glad I'll soon be dead.
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"Fanny and Alexander" (1982) was announced at the time of its release as Ingmar Bergman's swan song, his last film for the big screen. It is his most optimistic and enchanting blend of romance, tragedy, comedy, fantasy, and mysticism. Set in Sweden in the beginning of the 20th century, the film follows the lives and adventures of two children, brother and sister Fanny and Alexander Edkahl.
I love Bergman in every mood and in every genre - I love him dark, bleak, harrowing ("Shame"), mysterious ("Persona"), merciless and devastating ("Scenes from a Marriage, "Face to Face", "Autumn Sonata). I love his lighter, smiling side ("Wild Strawberries", "Smiles of a Summer Night). Even for a master of Bergman's powerful talent, "Fanny and Alexander" is extraordinary - a profound film which is also one of his most accessible works.
Pablo Picasso said once, "When I was 9 years old, I could paint like Rafael; as an adult, all my life I tried to learn how to paint like a child". In his final film, one of the greatest masters of dark and sometimes morose psychological studies looks at the world with a child's eye. The words he chose to finish his film with reflect the hope, the happiness and the magic that can be fully felt only in one's childhood: "...Anything can happen, anything is possible. Time and space do not exist. ..On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins out and waves new patterns." --- August Strindberg's introductory notes for A Dream Play.