TY - ADVS AU - Bergman,Ingmar AU - Donner,Jèorn AU - Guve,Bertil AU - Frèoling,Ewa AU - August,Pernilla AU - Josephson,Erland AU - Andersson,Harriet AU - Nykvist,Sven AU - Bell,Daniel AU - Helmerson,Frans AU - Jacobs,Marianne ED - Cinematograph (Firm) ED - Svenska filminstitutet. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - Fanny och Alexander T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 0780029437 AV - CM DVD 00514 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2004///] CY - Irvington, NY PB - Criterion Collection KW - Brothers and sisters KW - Sweden KW - Drama KW - Family KW - Remarriage KW - Feature films KW - Foreign films KW - Foreign language films KW - Swedish KW - local KW - Feature KW - migfg N1 - "The theatrical version"--Disc label; Originally released as a motion picture in 1982; Special features: audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; original theatrical trailer; Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; art director, Anna Asp ; editor, Sylvia Ingemarsson ; music, Daniel Bell, Frans Helmerson, Marianne Jacobs ; costume designer, Marik Vos; Bertil Guve, Ewa Frèoling, Pernilla August, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Allan Edwall; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - 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 ER -