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Fanny and Alexander Details

1982 Certificate 15 Certificate 15
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Director Ingmar Bergman had intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER to be his final theatrical film and a summing-up of sorts of his entire cinematic career. (It was followed by 1984's AFTER THE REHEARSAL, which was also made for Swedish television and subsequently released theatrically abroad.) FANNY AND ALEXANDER is the story of two .. Read more

Starring Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve
Director Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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Fanny and Alexander

Director Ingmar Bergman had intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER to be his final theatrical film and a summing-up of sorts of his entire cinematic career. (It was followed by 1984's AFTER THE REHEARSAL, which was also made for Swedish television and subsequently released theatrically abroad.) FANNY AND ALEXANDER is the story of two children belonging to a wealthy, extensive theatrical family in provincial Sweden in the early years of the 20th century--10-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his younger sister, Fanny (Pernilla Alwin). When their father dies unexpectedly during a performance and their mother decides to remarry, the children are forced to relocate to the austere (and possibly haunted) home of their stern and rather coldhearted stepfather, Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). A means of escape is eventually provided by Isak Jacobi (Erland Josephson), a longtime friend of the Ekdahl family's who seems to possess magical powers. In this somewhat autobiographical movie--which was filmed in the director's hometown of Uppsala--the gifted, precocious Alexander is a stand-in for Bergman himself, who had a problematic relationship with his own father, a strict clergyman. At once festive, spooky, and bawdy--and uncharacteristically life-affirming--FANNY AND ALEXANDER is one of Bergman's most universally appealing and accessible works.

Starring Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve
Director Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Run time DVD: 5 hrs 9 mins
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Certificate Certificate 15 DVD
Certificate 15 LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language DVD: Swedish
LOVEFiLM Instant: Swedish
Subtitles DVD: English
LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Released Production year: 1982

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      An interesting mixture of Dear Octopus and Wild Strawberries turns into something more akin to The Face or The Night Comers. A kind of Bergman compendium, and impossible to describe exactly for those who have not seen it.

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      If Tolstoy made TV

      Have you read Anna Korenenna or A Suitable Boy and been astonished by the humanity enclosed within these giant books - and having though before you started ... read more »

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      A masterpiece

      One of Ingmar Bergman's finest achievements,was intended to be his final film .This is the 3 hour cinema version of the 5 hour made for television film.read more »

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    See the entire LOVEFiLM Bergman Collection here Checkmate. Death has finally taken the great Swedish master, Ingmar Bergman, as he always knew it must. No filmmaker wrestled longer and more painfully with the knowledge of his own mortality. His father was a severe Lutheran minister, and a figure who cast a long shadow over Bergman's films, including his premature swansong, Fanny and Alexander (1982), and perhaps his purest masterpiece, Winter Light (1962), a portrait of a pastor who has lost... Read more

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