Fanny and Alexander
DVD - 2004
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Irvington, NY :
Criterion Collection
2004.
- Language
- Swedish
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Theatrical version ; director-approved double-disc set
- Item Description
- Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.
Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; a new essay by novelist Rick Moody; includes a bonus disc featuring new introductions by director Ingmar Bergman to eleven of his films, as well as a selection of theatrical trailers.
Full screen. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, RDSL dual-layer.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Awards
- Academy Awards, 1984: Winner: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design; Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden).
Golden Globes 1984: Winner: Best Foreign Film ; Nominee: Best Director - Motion Picture - Production Credits
- Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; art director, Anna Asp ; editor, Sylvia Ingemarsson ; music, Daniel Bell, Frans Helmerson, Marianne Jacobs ; costume designer, Marik Vos.
- ISBN
- 9780780029439
- Access
- Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
- Disc 1. The theatrical version
- Disc 2. Ingmar Bergman introductions.