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7.2A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
Cast
- Stéphane Audran as Babette
- Bodil Kjer as Filippa
- Birgitte Federspiel as Martine
- Jarl Kulle as General Lorens Löwenhielm
- Jean-Philippe Lafont as Achille Papin
- Bibi Andersson as Svensk hofdame
Themes
- servant
- charity
- community service
- catholic
- feast
- reconciliation
- sect
- frenchwoman
- coastal village
- master servant relationship
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Gabriel Axel
- Screenplay by
- Gabriel Axel
- Based on
- Babette's Feast , 1958 story, by Isak Dinesen
- Produced by
- Just Betzer , Bo Christensen , Benni Korzen , Pernille Siesbye
- Starring
- Stephane Audran , Birgitte Federspiel , Bodil Kjer
- Narrated by
- Ghita Nørby
- Cinematography
- Henning Kristiansen
- Edited by
- Finn Henriksen
- Music by
- Per Nørgård
- Production company
- Nordisk Film
- Release date
- 28 August 1987 ( 1987-08-28 )
- Running time
- 102 minutes
- Country
- Denmark
- Languages
- Danish, Swedish, French
- Box office
- $4.4 million (US)
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Encyclopedic overview
Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes Gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). It was produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen and Benni Korzen, with funding from the Danish Film Institute. It stars Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, and Bodil Kjer.
Babette's Feast was met with widespread critical acclaim and became the first Danish film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Babette's Feast” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.