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Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

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Key Information
Directors: Ingmar Bergman
Genre: Foreign Films
Subgenre: Family Interaction · Comedy · Drama · Swedish
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: DVD: 5-Disc Set
UPC: 043396217133
Release Date: 1982
Running Time: 3hr 15min
Languages
Original Language: Swedish
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: 5-Disc Set, 5hr 12min
Release Company: Home Vision (November 16, 2004)
UPC: 037429197622
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS
Professional Reviews
: (06/17/1983, p.C8, Vincent Canby): "Even as you watch [FANNY & ALEXANDER]...,it has that quality of enchantment that usually attaches only to the best movies in retrospect....Big, dark, beautiful, generous..."
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Details: 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 Malmsj?). 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 hom...
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