Geronimo19672024-02-04T10:11:06.901Z

7/10

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 un...

CRCulver2018-10-17T23:22:08.422Z

8/10

Released in 1982 in a 5-hour version for Swedish television and cut to 180 minutes for theatrical release, Fanny and Alexander 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 p...

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Release

17/12/1982

Rating

🌟 7.8/10

Runtime

188 min

Status

Released

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$6,800,000

Genres

Fantasy Drama Mystery

Languages

EnglishGermanSwedishYiddish

Production

Links

IMDb Wikidata Homepage

Fanny and Alexander

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.