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. Ingmar Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length (312-minute) version of his triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest.
| 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 August |
| 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 |
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