DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Fanny & Alexander / Cinematograph ; Gaumont International ; Personafilm ; SVT Drama ; Svenska Filminstitutet ; Tobis Filmkunst ; Janus Films ; producer, Jörn Donner ; written by Ingmar Bergman ; directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Special ed.

Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2004]

Chicago, IL : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment

5 videodiscs (approximately 312 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

metal plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

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.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Criterion collection ; 262

Criterion collection ; 262.

Foreign films.

Theater -- Drama.

Siblings -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Widows -- Drama.

Marriage -- Drama.

Remarriage -- Drama.

Jewish families -- Drama.

Sweden -- Drama.

Drama.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Nykvist, Sven.

Bell, Daniel, 1928-

Andersson, Harriet.

Guve, Bertil, 1971-

Fröling, Ewa, 1952-

August, Pernilla, 1958-

Helmerson, Frans, 1945-

Jacobs, Marianne, 1946-

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007.

Josephson, Erland, 1923-2012.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)

Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny och Alexander

Fanny and Alexander The theatrical version

Fanny and Alexander The television version

The making of Fanny and Alexander.

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.

Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; Ingmar Bergman's feature-length documentary "The making of Fanny and Alexander"; "Ingmar Bergman bids farewell to film", a 60-minute conversation between Bergman and Nils Petter Sundgren made for Swedish television in 1984; audio commentary on the theatrical version by film scholar Peter Cowie; New video interviews with producer J?orn Donner, production manager Katinka Farago, art director Anna Asp, assistant director Peter Schildt, and actors Bertil Guve, Ewa Fr?oling, Pernilla August and Erland Josephson; introduction by Bergman to eleven of his films; a selection of Bergman theatrical trailers; costume sketches and video footage of the models for the film's sets; stills gallery.

Videorecording (DVD).

Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; art director, Anna Asp ; editor, Sylvia Ingemarsson ; music, Daniel Bell, Frans Helmerson, Marianne Jacobs ; costume designer, Marik Vos.

Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Pernilla August, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Allan Edwall.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, RDSL dual-layer.

Swedish dialogue, with optional English subtitles.

Academy Awards, USA, 1984: Oscar - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim); Best Cinematography (Sven Nykvist); Best Costume Design (Marik Vos-Lundh); Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden).

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