German title: Fanny und Alexander Francaise title: Fanny et Alexandre Spain title: Fanny y Alexander Greek title: Φάννυ και Αλέξανδρος Russian title: Фанни и Александр Original title: Fanny och Alexander
Alternative titles: Fanny & Alexander | Fanny kai Alexandros | Fanny og Alexander
Drama – Sweden, FRG, France Production year: 1981 Movie length: 190 minutes
Director: Ingmar Bergman Writer: Ingmar Bergman Cinematograph: Sven Nykvist Music: Daniel Bell
Movie description:
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar’s mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar’s early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable. The film dramatizes and resolves those conflicts. A sub-plot features Isak, a local Jewish merchant who is the grandmother’s lover and whose odd household becomes the children’s refuge.