SYNOPSIS: 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.
| Carl Ekdahl | Börje Ahlstedt |
| Fanny Ekdahl | Pernilla Allwin |
| Oscar Ekdahl | Allan Edwall |
| Emilie Ekdahl | Ewa Fröling |
| Alexander Ekdahl | Bertil Guve |
| Gustav Adolf Ekdahl | Jarl Kulle |
| Alma Ekdahl | Mona Malm |
| Lydia Ekdahl | Christina Schollin |
| Maj, Emilie's nursemaid | Pernilla Wallgren |
| Helena Ekdahl | Gun Wållgren |
| Blenda Vergérus, the bishop's mother | Marianne Aminoff |
| Justina, the kitchen maid | Harriet Andersson |
| Bishop Edvard Vergérus | Jan Malmsjö |
| Henrietta Vergérus, the bishop's sister | Kerstin Tidelius |
| Filip Landahl | Gunnar Björnstrand |
| Mikael Bergman | Per Mattson |
| Isak Jacobi | Erland Josephson |
| Ismael | Stina Ekblad |
| Aron | Mats Bergman |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| Script | Ingmar Bergman |
| Executive producer | Jörn Donner |
| Cinematographer | Sven Nykvist |
| Assistant director | Peter Schildt |
| Production manager | Katinka Farago |
| Film editor | Sylvia Ingemarsson |
| Sound and mixing | Björn Gunnarsson, Lars Liljeholm, Bo Persson and Owe Svensson |
| Art director | Anna Asp |
| Set decorator | Susanne Lingheim |
| Costume designer | Marik Vos |
| Music | Daniel Bell |
By November 15, 2004
With the very first shots of Fanny and Alexander (1982), director Ingmar Bergman announces his perspective and signals his intentions. Here, we find the ten-year-old Alexander Read more »
By November 15, 2004
Upon its release in the U.S. in 1983, the theatrical version of Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander generated a wealth of controversy. Bergman has always seemed to breed conflict Read more »
September 08, 2010
Soon, American Bergman-ophiles will be granted a special peek into the process of one of cinema’s great artists. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host the Los Angeles world premiere Read more »
December 07, 2008
Fitting as a monument to such a long, influential, multimedia career, the publisher Taschen has released the mammoth The Ingmar Bergman Archives, a 592-page, fifteen-pound chronicle of the Swedish filmmaker’s Read more »
October 30, 2008
In town for the New York Film Festival screenings of his much-admired A Christmas Tale, French director Arnaud Desplechin talked to Dennis Lim about his always allusive filmmaking style and his particular Read more »
