| Description |
2 videodiscs (188 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 263 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 263.
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| System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, RDSL dual-layer. |
| Cast |
Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Pernilla August, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Allan Edwall. |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; art director, Anna Asp ; editor, Sylvia Ingemarsson ; music, Daniel Bell, Frans Helmerson, Marianne Jacobs ; costume designer, Marik Vos. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Summary |
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see 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, but befriend a local Jewish merchant whose odd household becomes the children's refuge. |
| Note |
Special features: Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie ; Original theatrical trailer ; Bergman video introductions, made for Swedish television ; A selection of theatrical trailers. |
| Awards |
Academy Awards, USA, 1984: Oscar - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim); Best Cinematography (Sven Nykvist); Best Costume Design (Marik Vos-Lundh); Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden). |
| Language |
Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Local Note |
WNPLFFDVD |
| Subject |
Siblings -- Sweden -- Drama.
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Families -- Sweden -- Drama.
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Remarriage -- Sweden -- Drama.
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| Indexed Term |
Familj Sverige Drama |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Foreign films -- Sweden.
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Foreign language films.
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| Added Author |
Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007.
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Guve, Bertil, 1971-
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Fröling, Ewa, 1952-
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August, Pernilla, 1958-
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Josephson, Erland, 1923-2012.
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Andersson, Harriet.
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Nykvist, Sven.
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Bell, Daniel, 1928-
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Helmerson, Frans, 1945-
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Jacobs, Marianne, 1946-
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
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Personafilm GmbH.
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Gaumont International.
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Cinematograph (Firm)
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Janus Films.
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| Added Title |
Fanny och Alexander |
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Fanny and Alexander |
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Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander |
| ISBN |
0780029437 |
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9780780029439 |
| Standard No. |
037429201022 |
| Music No. |
FAN060 Criterion Collection |
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