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Fanny and Alexander: The Television Version

Edition no. 262

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This release can only be found in the following box set: Fanny and Alexander

Release Date: Tuesday, 16 November 2004
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $59.95 (Box set exclusive)

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Svensk Filmindustri

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Featuring: Bïörje Ahlstedt, Pernilla Allwin, Allan Edwall, Ewa Fröling, Bertil Guve, Marianne Aminoff, Harriet Andersson, Jan Malmsjö, Kerstin Tidelius, Gunnar Björnstrand, Per Mattson, Erland Josephson, Lena Olin

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. Ingmar Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length (312-minute) version of his triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest.

Year: 1982
Time: 312 min.