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- Just a few weeks after the Christmas celebrations however, their beloved father dies. The children and their mother feel the loss greatly and Alexander occasionally sees his father's spirit in the house.
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Following the death of the children's father ( Allan Edwall ), their mother ( Ewa Fröling) remarries a prominent bishop ( Jan Malmsjö) who becomes abusive towards Alexander for his vivid imagination. Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander to be his final picture before retiring, and his script is semi-autobiographical.
Feb 7, 2020 · Some unspecified amount of time after the festivities end, Alexander’s father is on stage rehearsing Hamlet, playing the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and Alexander is watching. Suddenly his father freezes, forgets where he is, and collapses on the floor.
Aug 14, 2009 · The storyline is also loosely based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which happens to be the play the theater is working on when Oscar, Fanny and Alexander’s father, becomes ill and passes away. As far as the audience knows, the bishop, Edvard Vergerus, doesn’t literally kill Oscar.
A day or two later, during a rehearsal at the theater, Oscar is playing the ghost of Hamlet's father when he loses his place, forgets his lines, doesn't know where he is. Within a day or so, he is dead of a stroke. All of this is witnessed by the solemn Alexander, who is awakened in the middle of the night by his mother's animal cries of grief.
Nov 18, 2018 · Alexander and his sister, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin), are also prisoners here, but happily so, having been abducted by Isak in a daring rescue mission from the house of the wicked and abusive bishop who is their stepfather, and they are soon to be restored to the bosom of their family.
Things change for Alexander and Fanny when their father, Oscar, dies shortly after Christmas 1907. Although she truly does believe she loves him, the children's mother, Emilie, decides to marry Bishop Edvard Vergérus, who she first met as the officiate at Oscar's funeral.
Fanny and Alexander: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt, Pernilla Allwin, Kristian Almgren. Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
