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17/12/1982 Fantasy, Drama, Mystery 3h 8m
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Overview

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.

  1. Ingmar Bergman

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Pernilla Allwin

    Fanny Ekdahl

  2. Bertil Guve

    Alexander Ekdahl

  3. Jan Malmsjö

    Bishop Edvard Vergerus

  4. Ewa Fröling

    Emilie Ekdahl

  5. Gunn Wållgren

    Helena Ekdahl

  6. Börje Ahlstedt

    Carl Ekdahl

  7. Anna Bergman

    Hanna Schwartz

  8. Kristina Adolphson

    Siri

  9. Erland Josephson

    Isak Jacobi

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-02-04
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 bishop "Vergerus" (Jan Malmsjö) who has a rather different, more disciplinarian, attitude to bringing up the children. When they marry, the life of "Alexander", especially, becomes nigh on intolerable....read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Swedish

Budget
$6,000,000.00

Revenue
$6,800,000.00

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