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7.8As 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.
Released: 1982-12-17188 minDir: Ingmar BergmanFantasy, Drama, Mystery
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- Pernilla Allwin as Fanny Ekdahl
- Bertil Guve as Alexander Ekdahl
- Jan Malmsjö as Bishop Edvard Vergerus
- Ewa Fröling as Emilie Ekdahl
- Gunn Wållgren as Helena Ekdahl
- Börje Ahlstedt as Carl Ekdahl
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Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 epic period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the children's father (Allan Edwall), their mother (Ewa Fröling) remarries a prominent bishop (Jan Malmsjö) who becomes abusive towards Alexander for his vivid imagination.
Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander to be his final picture before retiring, and his script is semi-autobiographical. The characters Alexander, Fanny and stepfather Edvard are based on himself, his sister Margareta and his father Erik Bergman, respectively. Many of the scenes were filmed on location in Uppsala. The documentary film The Making of Fanny and Alexander was made simultaneously with the feature and chronicles its production.