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Fanny and Alexander  1982
Fanny och Alexander / Fanny et Alexandre / Fanny und Alexander
Director:  Ingmar Bergman
Producer:
  Jorn Donner (uncredited - and Daniel Toscan du Plantier)
Art Director:
  Anna Asp
Editor:
  Sylvia Ingemarsson
Music:
  Daniel Bell
Screenplay:
  Ingmar Bergman
Director of Photography:
  Sven Nykvist
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Cast:
spacer1 Bertil Guve spacer1 Pernilla Allwin spacer1 Kristina Adolphson spacer1 Börje Ahlstedt
spacer1 Kristian Almgren spacer1 Carl Billquist spacer1 Axel Düberg spacer1 Allan Edwall
spacer1 Siv Ericks spacer1 Ewa Froling spacer1 Patricia Bélin spacer1 Majlis Granlund
spacer1 Maria Grunlund spacer1 Eva von Hanno spacer1 Sonya Hedenbratt spacer1 Lena Olin
spacer1 Bertil Guve spacer1 Pernilla Allwin spacer1 Kristina Adolphson
spacer1 Börje Ahlstedt spacer1 Kristian Almgren spacer1 Carl Billquist
spacer1 Axel Düberg spacer1 Allan Edwall spacer1 Siv Ericks
spacer1 Ewa Froling spacer1 Patricia Bélin spacer1 Majlis Granlund
spacer1 Maria Grunlund spacer1 Eva von Hanno spacer1 Sonya Hedenbratt
spacer1 Lena Olin spacer1 spacer1
spacer1 Bertil Guve spacer1 Pernilla Allwin
spacer1 Kristina Adolphson spacer1 Börje Ahlstedt
spacer1 Kristian Almgren spacer1 Carl Billquist
spacer1 Axel Düberg spacer1 Allan Edwall
spacer1 Siv Ericks spacer1 Ewa Froling
spacer1 Patricia Bélin spacer1 Majlis Granlund
spacer1 Maria Grunlund spacer1 Eva von Hanno
spacer1 Sonya Hedenbratt spacer1 Lena Olin

Synopsis:
At Christmas time at the turn of the century, the Ekdahl family and their servants have a merry time dancing, forgetting social rules. Later that night, the maid tucks 10-year-old Alexander into bed, apologising for being unable to stay the night with him as duty calls - duty being the bed of Alexander's Uncle Carl, whose wife tolerates his little flings. However Alexander's idyllic childhood is shattered when his actor-manager father suddenly has a heart attack and dies. His widow, Emilie, is comforted in her grief by a bishop, whom she eventually marries. Alexander and his sister Fanny are forced to leave the happy, warm home of their childhood and join their mother in the cold, dour world of the clergyman's house.
Review:
For once, a surprisingly happy, even magical, film from the usually gloomy Bergman, which attains the remarkable achievement of recreating life in a Swedish village at the turn-of-the-century as seen through the eyes of a child. Oscar winner for best foreign film, art direction, costumes and photography.

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