Fanny and Alexander

Name: Fanny and Alexander
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1982-12-17
Duration: 188 min
Rating: 7.767

★ 7,8 /10 (894 Votes)

1982 SV 188 min

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.

Stream

Rent

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Release date

17/12/1982

Votes

894

Popularity

2.8

Genres

Fantasy Drama Mystery

Status

Released

Original title

Fanny och Alexander

Language

Runtime

188 min

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$6,800,000

Website

www.orionpictures.com

Pernilla Allwin

Fanny Ekdahl

Bertil Guve

Alexander Ekdahl

Jan Malmsjö

Bishop Edvard Vergerus

Ewa Fröling

Emilie Ekdahl

Gunn Wållgren

Helena Ekdahl

Börje Ahlstedt

Carl Ekdahl

Anna Bergman

Hanna Schwartz

Kristina Adolphson

Siri

Erland Josephson

Isak Jacobi

Mats Bergman

Aron Retzinsky

Jarl Kulle

Gustav Adolf Ekdahl

Allan Edwall

Oscar Ekdahl

Harriet Andersson

Justina

Gunnar Björnstrand

Filip Landahl

Stina Ekblad

Ismael Retzinsky

Pernilla August

Maj

Mona Malm

Alma Ekdahl

Christina Schollin

Lydia Ekdahl

Kerstin Tidelius

Henrietta Vergerus

Inga Ålenius

Lisen

Hugo Hasslo

Glee Singer

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Kristian Almgren

Putte Ekdahl

Carl Billquist

Police Superintendent Jespersson

Axel Düberg

Witness to Bishop's Death

Siv Ericks

Alida

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Patricia Gélin

Statue

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Majlis Granlund

Miss Vega

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Maria Granlund

Petra Ekdahl

Eva von Hanno

Berta

Sonya Hedenbratt

Aunt Emma

Olle Hilding

Old Clergyman

Svea Holst

Miss Ester

Käbi Laretei

Aunt Anna von Bohlen

Lena Olin

Rosa

Gösta Prüzelius

Doctor Fürstenberg

Hans Strååt

Clergyman at Wedding

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Emelie Werkö

Jenny Ekdahl

Marianne Aminoff

Blenda Vergérus

Mona Andersson

Karna

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Hans Henrik Lerfeldt

Elsa Bergius

Marrit Ohlsson

Malla Tander

Nils Brandt

Mr. Morsing

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Lars-Owe Carlberg

Glee Singer

Gus Dahlström

Props Man

Ernst Günther

Rector Magnificus

Heinz Hopf

Tomas Graal

Sune Mangs

Mr. Salenius

Peter Stormare

Young Man Who Helps Isak with Coffer

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Maud Hyttenberg

Miss Sinclair

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Sven-Erik Jacobsson

Glee Singer

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Marianne Nielsen

Selma

Pernilla Wahlgren

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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>Fanny and Alexander</i> can still be seen as a great capstone to decades of legendary cinema. FANNY AND Alexander deals with the great two preoccupations of Bergman's career, namely the absence of God and the unbridgeable gaps between human beings, but the result is wonderfully life-affirming. Fanny and Alexander …

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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 is suddenly taken ill. His death follows swiftly and their mother is soon being wooed by the rather puritanical bishop "Vergerus" (Jan Malmsjö) who has a rather different, more disciplinarian, attitude to bringing up the children. When they marry, the life of "Alexander", especially, becomes nigh on intolerable. "…

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