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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Ingmar Bergman (written by)
Release Date:
17 December 1982 (Sweden)
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Tagline:
En film av Ingmar Bergman
Plot:
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century...
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Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 18 wins
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7 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: November 17, 2009
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"...Anything can happen, anything is possible. Time and space do not exist..."
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Pernilla Allwin | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Fanny Ekdahl | |
| Bertil Guve | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Alexander Ekdahl | |
| Börje Ahlstedt | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Carl Ekdahl | |
| Allan Edwall | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Oscar Ekdahl | |
| Ewa Fröling | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Emilie Ekdahl | |
| Gunn Wållgren | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Helena Ekdahl (as Gun Wållgren) | |
| Jarl Kulle | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl | |
| Jan Malmsjö | ... | Biskopsgården - Bishop Edvard Vergerus | |
| Christina Schollin | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Lydia Ekdahl | |
| Kerstin Tidelius | ... | Biskopsgården - Henrietta Vergerus | |
| Emelie Werkö | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Jenny Ekdahl | |
| Marianne Aminoff | ... | Biskopsgården - Blenda Vergérus | |
| Sonya Hedenbratt | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Aunt Emma | |
| Svea Holst | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Miss Ester | |
| Kristina Adolphson | ... | Ekdahlska huset - Siri |
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Runtime:
188 min | Sweden:312 min (director's cut)
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Italy:T |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:R-13 |
Australia:M |
Argentina:16 |
Canada:14A |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Iceland:L |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16 |
Norway:16 (original rating)
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The heating in the studios didn't work too well during the winter months, so scenes had to be shot in subzero degrees before extra radiators got properly heated.
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Continuity: In the theatre scene, early in the movie, Georg Årlin, who plays a high ranking military man, is seen whispering with a person sitting next to him. The next shot shows other people talking, and then Årlin is seen behind them at the left corner, in conversation with no one, staring into space in front of him.
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Ekdahlska huset - Oscar Ekdahl:
My dear friends, for 22 years, in the capacity of theater manager, I've stood here and made a speech without really having any talent for that sort of thing. Especially if you think of my father who was brilliant at speeches. My only talent, if you can call it that in my case...
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Movie Connections:
References Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)
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What happens during Uncle Isak's visit to the Bishop's House and how?How could Fanny & Alexander be eligible for an Academy Award, when it was shown on television beforehand?
Was the Bishop responsible for how his previous family died?
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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.