Overview:
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.| Original Title: | Fanny och Alexander |
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| Status: | Released (1982-12-17) |
| Awards: | Won 4 Oscars. 25 wins & 12 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $6,783,304 |
| Screen: | Ingmar Bergman |
| Productions: | Cinematograph AB, Svenska Filminstitutet, SVT, Gaumont, Personafilm, Tobis |
| Production Countries: | Sweden, Germany, France |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Deutsch, svenska, |
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Released in 1982 in a 5-hour version for Swedish television and cut to 180 minutes for theatrical release, <i>Fanny and Alexander</i> was meant to be Ingmar Bergman's last film. Though the great auteur lived on another 25 years and even wrote and directed some smaller projects, <i>Fa ....
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The eponymous children (Pernilla Allwin and Bertil Guve) live an happy upper-middle class life with their theatre-manager father "Oskar" (Allan Edwall) and mother "Emilie" (Ewa Fröling) and are looking forward to Christmas. Parties ensue and a good time is had by all until the father ....
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