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100% Tomatometer 45 Reviews 94% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve) enjoy a happy life with their parents...
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Synopsis. This is essentially a four act play. In the first act we meet the Ekdahl family -- large, joyous, prosperous. Then Oscar (Allan Edwall), father of Alexander (Bertil Guve) who might be 11 and Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) who might be 7, dies. In act two, Oscar appears to his children.
1982. 188 minutes. Color. 1.66:1. Swedish. Spine #263. Special Features. Digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Audio commentary featuring film scholar Peter Cowie. Theatrical trailer. Optional English-dubbed soundtrack. PLUS: An essay by novelist Rick Moody. New cover by Eric Skillman. Purchase Options.
"Fanny and Alexander" is a long film that contains many characters and many events. Very simply: In a Swedish provincial town in the early years of this century, two children are growing up within the bosom of a large, jolly extended family. Their father dies, and their mother remarries.
Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.
Play Trailer. 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.
Fanny and Alexander. DRAMA. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
