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Learn more More Like This. The Seventh Seal Through a Glass Darkly The Virgin Spring The Passion of Anna A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair. Hour of the Wolf Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Carl Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset Pernilla Allwin Fanny Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset Kristian Almgren Putte Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset Carl Billquist Oscar Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset Siv Ericks Miss Vega - Ekdahlska huset Maria Granlund Petra Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset Bertil Guve Alexander Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset Eva von Hanno Berta - Ekdahlska huset Sonya Hedenbratt Edit Storyline It's the early twentieth century Sweden.
Sweden France West Germany. Swedish German Yiddish English French. Edit Did You Know? Trivia In his autobiography, Bergman cited Charles Dickens as an influence on his screenplay. Goofs In Part 2, when the children are woken by their mother screaming after their father has died, he can be seen breathing in some shots.
Quotes Ekdahlska huset - Helena Ekdahl: Are you sad because you've grown old? Jacobis hus - Isak Jacobi: Worse people, worse machines, worse wars I'm glad I'll soon be dead. Alternate Versions Theatrical version is minutes long. Director's cut is minutes long. He told the press he decided to retire, because, "I don't have the strength any more, neither psychologically nor physically".
It was difficult to differentiate between what was fantasy and what was considered real. If I made an effort, I was perhaps able to make reality stay real. But, for instance, there were ghosts and specters. What should I do with them? And the sagas, were they real?
Bergman also recalled receiving his own magic lantern at age 10, from his aunt; [20] in his autobiography, he described it as personally significant, and previously depicted a magic lantern in his Cries and Whispers. However, the Ekdahls do not entirely match the Bergmans. Emilie also fits that self-contradictory design. Margareta and Ingmar's father was the strict Erik Bergman , a Lutheran pastor.
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But this is not quite true. Fanny and Alexander is a story, the chronicle of a middle-class, perhaps upper-middle-class family sticking closely together There's a lot of me in the Bishop, rather than in Alexander. He is haunted by his own devils". Bergman initially doubted that Sweden alone had the manpower, but eventually caved, Donner said.
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Bertil Guve was 10 when cast as Alexander. Bergman ultimately cast Guve, without sharing the story of Fanny and Alexander with him, recognising his imagination when he told a story about killing his own grandfather during the audition. He said it was because I acted with my eyes". Pernilla Wallgren later August was cast, out of a state school where she was studying the stage, for what became her breakthrough role. Art director Anna Asp was given six months before production to prepare, and started by building miniature models and drawing sets.
She had one apartment in the residence, whereas the other apartment belonged to Erik Bergman and his family. Costume designer Marik Vos was tasked to oversee a project requiring costumes for the principal actors, along with over 1, costumes for the extras. She allowed the testing of the vast majority of fabric samples to determine how they appeared in photography, with Bergman demanding to see as many of the test shots as he could. Principal photography began in Uppsala , Sweden, [13] lasting from 7 September to 22 March Scenes were shot outside of Uppsala Cathedral , with the crew conflicting with the dean over whether an antenna could be removed.
With Bergman suffering from influenza , his colleagues substituted for him in shooting Oscar's funeral scene with extras and a brass band. Other crew were injured in workplace accidents. Critic Michiko Kakutani identified Fanny and Alexander as sharing marriage-drama and domestic themes as his Thirst , Scenes from a Marriage and From the Life of the Marionettes.
The glow that warmed audiences radiates from only an outer layer; its core is as chilling as any of Bergman's fictions". Zavarzadeh further noted, "He is involved in the construction of a more genuine and stable reality than the one that surrounds him". As indicated by Gustav Adolf's final speech, most of the Ekdahls do not spend much time grappling with the meaning of life. On Alexander's visions and their reality, critic Roger Ebert argued:. Fanny and Alexander is above all the story of what Alexander understands is really happening.
If magic is real, if ghosts can walk, so be it. Bergman has often allowed the supernatural into his films. In another sense, the events in Fanny and Alexander may be seen through the prism of the children's memories, so that half-understood and half-forgotten events have been reconstructed into a new fable that explains their lives. Time and space do not exist. On an insignificant foundation of reality, imagination spins out and weaves new patterns". Film Quarterly essayist Jarrod Hayes concluded the conflict between Alexander and Edvard is a "clash of two Titans", as Edvard summons "the power of an image, God, Alexander has the power of the Image.
Cohen-Shalev argued Edvard disguises his emotional shortcomings with his bourgeois veneer and "glib, affected piety". The story makes multiple references to William Shakespeare 's play Hamlet ; [69] According to Scott-Douglas, Alexander observes Oscar playing Hamlet' s Ghost before he dies, and afterwards appears as a ghost, while Alexander acquires a new abusive stepfather.
This made "theatre and reality seem indistinguishable". I'm not Queen Gertrude, your kind stepfather is no king of Denmark, and this is not Elsinore Castle , even if it does look gloomy". Cohen-Shalev described cyclical patterns in the story: The story opens with exploring celebrations of the Swedish Christmas , which is expressed through "colors, sounds, movements, music" that Cineaste critic Royal Brown called "life-affirming, pagan Christianity".
This is starkly contrasted with Edvard's Christianity, which is dictated by asceticism , authoritarianism and concern with death, with Alexander finding his new home a bare, cold prison. After this point, true miracles in Bergman's universe have to come from a different source, Perridon wrote.
The depiction of Jews in Sweden revolves around Isak, which academic Rochelle Wright argues is "far more nuanced" than in Bergman's previous The Touch Isak is not completely assimilated, but his presence in Sweden is presented as positive, as he stands for imagination, "magic and mystery", Wright wrote.
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The light that engulfs Isak when he screams after being beaten by Edvard calls on the light of the Kabbalah to vanquish evil, Hayes hypothesised. Ismael speaks the Finno-Swedish language , and is androgynous , being a male character played by a woman, Stina Ekblad. Ismael also says to Alexander, "Perhaps we are the same person". Wood and Lippe observed Ismael touching Alexander and kissing Aron.
Ismael speaks of what will happen in the future in describing Edvard's death, but it can all be logically explained, with a police officer informing Emilie the death is legally accidental. While cinematic film stock was used in production, Bergman conceived of the presentation as a television miniseries , [88] and there are different versions, presented as a miniseries and film.
He remarked, "This was extremely troublesome, as I had to cut into the nerves and lifeblood of the film". The complete version runs minutes. They ran 92, 40, 37, 60 and 90 minutes, beginning 25 December Audiences in Swedish theatres were large at showings of Fanny and Alexander , including at the five-hour cut, [] proving it to be the most popular box-office film Bergman had in his native country. Vincent Canby's contemporary review in The New York Times described it a "big, dark, beautiful, generous family chronicle"; Canby also praised the cast as "uniformly excellent".
Ebert added it to his Great Movies list in , hailing it as "astonishingly beautiful", crediting Sven Nykvist for "color and warmth". Macfadyen added that as a RADA student, the film was shown as "an example to follow — an example of people acting with each other". Pauline Kael wrote a more mixed review, enjoying the merry atmosphere but writing the "conventionality" is "rather shocking", suggesting Bergman had moved to Victorian times to escape his usual eccentric viewpoints.
Cox had not seen the longer version, but considered it might be better. In , Fanny and Alexander was named the best film of the s by Los Angeles Times by Sheila Benson , [] who called it "generous, ribald, reflective and radiantly life-affirming", [] and Michael Wilmington, [] and the third best by Newsweek critic David Ansen. He described it as "an opulent family saga, by turns bawdy, stark and strange" with a rare abundance of "indelible supporting characters". After ostensibly retiring from directing, Bergman completed After the Rehearsal in Bergman selected Bille August as director on condition that Fanny and Alexander actress Pernilla Wallgren star as Bergman's mother; she did under the name Pernilla August.
Following Bergman's death in , PostNord Sverige decided to honour the director with a postage stamp depicting him directing Fanny and Alexander. It was scheduled to debut February From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fanny and Alexander Original Swedish release poster. Upon its release in the U.
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Bergman has always seemed to breed conflict among cineastes [ You either loved the film or hated it, and strong voices from the reviewing community lined up on either side. We are not equipped for such excursions. We might just as well ignore the big things. Therefore, let us be happy while we're happy, let's be kind, generous, affectionate, and good.
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