- makdelartMay 1, 2026I’ve watched both versions: the 3-hour cinema cut and the over 5-hour TV cut. I definitely recommend the full version: the cinema version feels like a rough draft, focusing on the main plotline and is decidedly poorer. Most scenes in the TV version are more expansive and elaborate, whereas in the cinema version they’ve been cut down, and a whole host of scenes (including significant ones) are missing from the latter altogether. The film itself is a melancholic and magical tale of childhood, memories of the family home, of life, love, transience and death, of religion, of worldly and spiritual matters, where bawdiness mingles with metaphysics.
- Rowan KrzysiakFebruary 12, 2025How a project of this size and vision comes together with such clarity still blows my mind. Every scene is dripping with detail that you know has been painstakingly crafted but hangs there like it's been waiting to be filmed for a century. The acting is some of the most natural I've seen and the story is a slow turning of a screw with a couple of hammer blows thrown in from the invisible man. The version I saw was three hours long and every second felt worthwhile. Recommended.
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Fanny and Alexander was released on December 17, 1982.
Fanny and Alexander was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
Fanny and Alexander has a runtime of 3h 9m.
Fanny and Alexander was produced by Jörn Donner, Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
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.
The key characters in Fanny and Alexander are Fanny Ekdahl (Pernilla Allwin), Alexander Ekdahl (Bertil Guve), Bishop Edvard Vergérus (Jan Malmsjö).
Fanny and Alexander is rated R.
Fanny and Alexander is a Fantasy, Drama, Mystery film.
Fanny and Alexander has an audience rating of 9.4 out of 10.
Fanny and Alexander had a budget of $6M.
Fanny and Alexander has made $6.8M at the box office.