Fanny & Alexander
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 c...
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| Language: | Swedish |
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Irvington, NY : Chicago, IL :
Criterion Collection ; Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Special ed |
| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
263 Criterion collection 261-264 |
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| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Criterion also released the first disc in a one-disc edition with same #263 in their DVD series and same ISBN Originally released as a motion picture in 1982 Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; Ingmar Bergman's feature-length documentary "The making of Fanny and Alexander"; "Ingmar Bergman bids farewell to film", a 60-minute conversation between Bergman and Nils Petter Sundgren made for Swedish television in 1984; audio commentary on the theatrical version by film scholar Peter Cowie; New video interviews with producer Jörn Donner, production manager Katinka Farago, art director Anna Asp, assistant director Peter Schildt, and actors Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Pernilla August and Erland Josephson; introduction by Bergman to eleven of his films; a selection of Bergman theatrical trailers; costume sketches and video footage of the models for the film's sets; stills gallery Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; a new essay by novelist Rick Moody; includes a bonus disc featuring new 2002 introductions by director Ingmar Bergman to eleven of his films, as well as a selection of theatrical trailers This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC Three-hour theatrical version originally released as a motion picture in 1982 Title from container |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet 5 videodiscs (ca. 312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet |
| Format: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, RDSL dual-layer |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated |
| Awards: | 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) |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; art director, Anna Asp ; editor, Sylvia Ingemarsson ; music, Daniel Bell, Frans Helmerson, Marianne Jacobs ; costume designer, Marik Vos |
| ISBN: | 0780029070 (collection) 0780029437 (theatrical version) 0780029445 (television version) 0780029461 (making of Fanny and Alexander) |