Fanny & Alexander

Resource Information

The work Fanny & Alexander represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Fanny & Alexander

Statement of responsibility

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

Title variation

• Fanny and Alexander
• Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander

Contributor

• Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
• Andersson, Harriet
• August, Pernilla, 1958-
• Bell, Daniel, 1928-
• Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007
• Fröling, Ewa, 1952-
• Guve, Bertil, 1971-
• Helmerson, Frans, 1945-
• Jacobs, Marianne, 1946-
• Josephson, Erland, 1923-2012
• Nykvist, Sven
• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Subject

• Swedish language materials
• Brothers and sisters -- Sweden -- Drama
• Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
• Family -- Sweden -- Drama
• Feature films
• PLP -- Holiday Films Around The World -- 2019.11
• Remarriage -- Sweden -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Domestic drama (Motion pictures)

Language

• swe
• eng
• swe

Summary

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

Member of

• Fanny och Alexander (Motion picture)
• Criterion collection, 263

Awards note

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).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

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

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

Swedish dialogue, with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.F366 2004

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

188

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

263

Target audience

general

Technique

live action