Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt, Pernilla Allwin, Kristian Almgren, Carl Billquist...
Runtime:
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MPAA Rating:
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In Theaters:
17 June 1983 USA
Distribution:
Sandrew,
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont ,
Artificial Eye,
Embassy Pictures Corporation,
The Criterion Collection,
Ifa Argentina,
Pole Vídeo Comunicações Ltda.,
Versátil Home Vídeo
En film av Ingmar Bergman.
Through the wide eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the great delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family—a sprawling, convivial bourgeois clan living in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Intended as Ingmar Bergman’s swan song, Fanny and Alexander is the legendary filmmaker’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional rigor with immense joyfulness and sensuality. The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery...