Loading Page
Fanny and Alexander(1982)
Status: Released
Date: 1982-12-17
78%
789 Votes
Time: 3h 8m
Overview:
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Languages: English, German, Swedish, Yiddish.
Countries:
Sweden,
Germany,
France
Budget: $6,000,000.00
Revenue: $6,800,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Cinematograph AB
Personafilm
Tobis
Movie: Fanny and Alexander
Top 10 Billed Cast
Pernilla Allwin
Fanny Ekdahl
Jan Malmsjö
Bishop Edvard Vergerus
Börje Ahlstedt
Carl Ekdahl
Anna Bergman
Hanna Schwartz
Gunn Wållgren
Helena Ekdahl
Kristina Adolphson
Siri
Erland Josephson
Isak Jacobi
Mats Bergman
Aron Retzinsky
Jarl Kulle
Gustav Adolf Ekdahl
Video Trailer Fanny and Alexander
Video: BFI Re-Release Trailer
BFI Re-Release Trailer
![Fanny and Alexander (1982) Original Trailer [FHD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tDlA_QZmqkM/mqdefault.jpg)
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Original Trailer [FHD]
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Clip - Back in cinemas for 40th anniversary screenings 2 Dec 2022 | BFI
Mark Kermode reviews Fanny and Alexander (1982) | BFI Player
All 4 videos
BFI Re-Release Trailer - Trailer
![Fanny and Alexander (1982) Original Trailer [FHD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tDlA_QZmqkM/sddefault.jpg)
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Original Trailer [FHD] - Trailer
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Clip - Back in cinemas for 40th anniversary screenings 2 Dec 2022 | BFI - Clip
Mark Kermode reviews Fanny and Alexander (1982) | BFI Player - Featurette
Recommendations Movies
73%
From the Life of the Marionettes(de)
1980-10-08
Peter and Katarina are at a marital crossroads, but, when he brutally kills a burlesque dancer, their domestic squabbles are rendered trivial by comparison. In the wake of the crime, the film backtracks, painting a portrait of the fraught union between Peter and Katarina. When does a marriage go bad? What causes a member of the German bourgeoisie to murder an innocent woman?
67%
Standing Up(en)
2013-08-16
Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they decide to take off, on the run together. What follows is a three day odyssey of discovery and self-discovery.
58%
The Bronte Sisters(fr)
1979-05-09
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
82%
Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God(en)
2008-11-21
Julia Sweeney's third autobiographical monologue, Letting Go of God takes the audience through her Catholic upbringing and how personal events in her life and that of her family led her to a disbelief in a personal universal deity.
77%
Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996(en)
1995-10-10
A compilation of music videos from pop singer Janet Jackson.
66%
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within(en)
2010-11-05
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
80%
The Mighty Boosh Live(en)
2006-11-13
The Boosh returned to the stage in 2006, touring the UK for the first time. Though drawing heavily from their earlier material, the main story combined these elements into a new narrative.
63%
The Serpent's Egg(en)
1977-10-28
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
61%
Palermo Shooting(de)
2008-11-20
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
73%
Baby Face(en)
1933-07-13
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
79%
Cries and Whispers(sv)
1972-12-21
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
62%
The Moustache(fr)
2005-06-09
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
64%
Crisis(sv)
1946-02-25
A poor Swedish piano teacher and her foster daughter’s lives are upended when the child’s biological mother arrives in their small town to reclaim her.
78%
Through a Glass Darkly(sv)
1961-10-16
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.
75%
Il Grido(it)
1957-09-26
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
63%
Madonna: Truth or Dare(en)
1991-05-10
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the icon, from a prayer circle before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.
40%
Highlander: The Source(en)
2007-09-15
The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city, Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, remembers happier times before the love of his life left... Hopeless and alone, MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions, including his mysterious friend Methos, and a mortal, Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal.
70%
A Swedish Love Story(sv)
1970-04-24
The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
75%
The Ballad of Narayama(ja)
1983-04-29
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Similar Movies
64%
Ghost Stories(en)
2018-01-20
Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
48%
Glass Chin(en)
2014-04-19
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
65%
Red Road(en)
2006-10-27
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
68%
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie(de)
2007-09-28
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
70%
David Harum(en)
1934-03-02
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
100%
Epeidi(el)
2023-05-10
An enthusiastic androgynous voice leaves a message on 25-year-old Mina's answering machine inviting her to the best party of her life. Mina really doesn't want to go, so she tries to come up with the most outrageous excuse to get rid of the Voice once and for all. However, her mind has a surprise in store for her.
81%
The Best of Youth(it)
2003-06-22
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
74%
Joyeux Noel(fr)
2005-11-09
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
62%
Shot Pattern(fr)
1982-09-21
A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.
52%
The Christmas Lottery(en)
2020-12-12
The Davenport sisters have drifted apart over the years but when their Dad wins the lottery all he wants is having his girls home for Christmas. Getting over years of resentment proves a big task but it's pushed aside when their mother suffering from dementia loses the ticket. They put aside their differences to help find the ticket and in doing so get over their differences and finally learn to come together.
74%
Rushmore(en)
1998-12-11
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
30%
A Christmas to Remember(en)
2015-11-13
Two families that hated each other for years are forced to spend Christmas together.
73%
Loveless(ru)
2017-06-01
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.
62%
The Glass Menagerie(en)
1966-12-08
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
71%
Garden State(en)
2004-07-28
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
69%
Basic Instinct(en)
1992-03-20
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
77%
The Straight Story(en)
1999-10-15
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
79%
La Strada(it)
1954-09-23
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
71%
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(en)
1938-01-14
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.
71%
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(en)
2005-12-07
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.