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Fanny and Alexander (1982) is streaming on Max. Also available on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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You can watch Fanny and Alexander (1982) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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.
Lush, candlelit warmth slowly curdles into a chilling, ascetic nightmare as a family's theatrical joy meets religious austerity. This sprawling epic captures the magic of childhood imagination clashing against the suffocating shadow of a cruel authority.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Jan Malmsjö, Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt, Anna Bergman, Kristina Adolphson, Erland Josephson, Mats Bergman
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Fanny and Alexander
You can watch Fanny and Alexander (1982) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Jan Malmsjö, Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt, Anna Bergman, Kristina Adolphson, Erland Josephson, Mats Bergman
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