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movie synopsis Fanny och Alexander (1982)

movie story Fanny och Alexander (1982)




This is essentially a 4 act play. In the first act we meet the Ekdahl family -- large, joyous, wealthy. Then Oscar (Allan Edwall), father of Alexander (Bertil Guve) who is probably eleven and Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) who might be 7, dies.

In act two, Oscar appears to his youngsters. Alexander asks why he doesn't go off to Heaven. Oscar replies that he does not want to depart those he lived with. The kid's mother remarries in much less than a 12 months, going to a strict Bishop Edvard Vergerus' (Jan Malmsjö) house without any of her fixtures, none of the children's toys, and an optimism that she will be able to make a very good aspect of it regardless of his powerfully controlling personality. Alexander learns from the ghost of the Bishop's first spouse that she and her kids died seeking to break out after having been locked up for days. They climbed out a window however failed to make it across the bloodless speedy-flowing flow that separates the back of the house from the town. Alexander tells this to a servant who repeats it to the Bishop. The Bishop should discredit this tale, and demands retraction. Then he locks up the boy.

In act three, Isak (Erland Josephson), a own family buddy, arrives on the house, ostensibly to buy a chest, but clearly to smuggle the youngsters out of the residence (in the chest!). In the course of this break out, the ghosts of his former circle of relatives appear to the Bishop. The youngsters are saved for the moment in Isak's house, wherein Alexander meets Ismael Retzinsky (Stina Ekblad) whose paranormal abilties assist Alexander start a fireplace within the Bishop's residence, a fire this is deadly to the hated step-father.

Within the very last act, mother (Ewa Fröling) and kids are returned within the warm consolation in their extended circle of relatives's house. Gustav (Jarl Kulle), the late Oscar's brother, gives a toast wherein he summarizes the play. Without mentioning ghosts explicitly, he says there are matters we recognise and ought to experience, together with meals and dance, and lots of greater elements of lifestyles of which we are ignorant.


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