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.
- 7.8
- 1982
- Released
- 3h 8m
Bertil Guve
Alexander Ekdahl
Pernilla Allwin
Fanny 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 SingerKristian Almgren
Putte Ekdahl
Carl Billquist
Police Superintendent Jespersson
Axel Düberg
Witness to Bishop's Death
Siv Ericks
AlidaPatricia Gélin
StatueMajlis Granlund
Miss VegaMaria 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 WeddingEmelie Werkö
Jenny Ekdahl
Marianne Aminoff
Blenda Vergérus
Mona Andersson
KarnaHans Henrik Lerfeldt
Elsa Bergius
Marrit Ohlsson
Malla Tander
Nils Brandt
Mr. Morsing
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 (uncredited)Maud Hyttenberg
Miss SinclairSven-Erik Jacobsson
Glee SingerMarianne Nielsen
Selma
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Released
sv
$6,000,000.00
$6,800,000.00
- #dying and death
- #child abuse
- #sibling relationship
- #funeral
- #loss of loved one
- #sweden
- #bishop
- #theatre group
- #child prodigy
- #dysfunctional family
- #ghost
- #hamlet
- #turn of the century
- #christmas
- #1900s
- #20th century
- #family chronicle
Reviews
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 bis
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 d