Fanny and Alexander
(1982)
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Fanny and Alexander
(1982)
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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
(as Gun Wållgren)
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| Jarl Kulle | ... | ||
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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 | ... | |
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>
This film could never have been made in the United States. I realize when it was made Bergman had been around for a long time and had his own clout but it still has too much of a philosophical slant to be mainstream here. This film is amazing. The first hour moves at a slow pace but it really sets up the rest of the movie well and then it really picks up. The cinematography is breathtaking and while this story makes you think a lot you don't feel ambivalent towards the characters through the rest of the first film after having been slowly introduced to all the characters you have a certain identifcation that is purely emotional and blends wonderfully with the other aspects of the film. It's truly great and should be considered one of Bergman's best works.