Fanny and Alexander( 1982)

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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.

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Pernilla Allwin
Fanny Ekdahl
Bertil Guve
Alexander Ekdahl
Jan Malmsjö
Bishop Edvard Vergerus
Börje Ahlstedt
Carl Ekdahl
Anna Bergman
Hanna Schwartz
Gunn Wållgren
Helena Ekdahl
Kristina Adolphson
Siri
Erland Josephson
Isak Jacobi
Mats Bergman
Aron Retzinsky
Jarl Kulle
Gustav Adolf Ekdahl
Allan Edwall
Oscar Ekdahl
Ewa Fröling
Emilie Ekdahl
Harriet Andersson
Justina
Gunnar Björnstrand
Filip Landahl
Stina Ekblad
Ismael Retzinsky
Pernilla August
Maj
Mona Malm
Alma Ekdahl
Christina Schollin
Lydia Ekdahl
Kerstin Tidelius
Henrietta Vergerus
Inga Ålenius
Lisen
Hugo Hasslo
Glee Singer
Kristian Almgren
Putte Ekdahl
Carl Billquist
Police Superintendent Jespersson
Axel Düberg
Witness to Bishop's Death
Siv Ericks
Alida
Patricia Gélin
Statue
Majlis Granlund
Miss Vega
Maria Granlund
Petra Ekdahl
Eva von Hanno
Berta
Sonya Hedenbratt
Aunt Emma
Olle Hilding
Old Clergyman
Svea Holst
Miss Ester
Käbi Laretei
Aunt Anna von Bohlen
Lena Olin
Rosa
Gösta Prüzelius
Doctor Fürstenberg
Hans Strååt
Clergyman at Wedding
Emelie Werkö
Jenny Ekdahl
Marianne Aminoff
Blenda Vergérus
Mona Andersson
Karna
Hans Henrik Lerfeldt
Elsa Bergius
Marrit Ohlsson
Malla Tander
Nils Brandt
Mr. Morsing
Lars-Owe Carlberg
Glee Singer
Gus Dahlström
Props Man
Ernst Günther
Rector Magnificus
Heinz Hopf
Tomas Graal
Sune Mangs
Mr. Salenius
Peter Stormare
Young Man Who Helps Isak with Coffer (uncredited)
Maud Hyttenberg
Miss Sinclair
Sven-Erik Jacobsson
Glee Singer
Marianne Nielsen
Selma

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A review by CRCulver

Written by CRCulver on Wed Oct 17 2018

Released in 1982 in a 5-hour version for Swedish television and cut to 180 minutes for theatrical release, <i>Fanny and Alexander</i> 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 projects, <i>Fanny and Alexander</i> can still be seen as a great capstone to decades of legendary cinema. FANNY AND Alexander deals with the great two preoccupations of Bergman's career, namely the absence of God and the unbridgeable gaps between human beings, but the result is wonderfully life-affirming. Fanny and Alexander a...