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Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

Glowing, magnificent, enchanting

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Overview

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

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Top Cast

Pernilla Allwin

Pernilla Allwin

Fanny Ekdahl

Bertil Guve

Bertil Guve

Alexander Ekdahl

Ewa Fröling

Ewa Fröling

Emilie Ekdahl

Jarl Kulle

Jarl Kulle

Gustav Adolf Ekdahl

Börje Ahlstedt

Börje Ahlstedt

Carl Ekdahl

Gunn Wållgren

Gunn Wållgren

Helena Ekdahl

Ernst Günther

Ernst Günther

Rector Magnificus

Sune Mangs

Sune Mangs

Mr. Salenius (Actor)

Pernilla Wahlgren

Pernilla Wahlgren

Esmeralda

Themes & Keywords

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About Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander is a drama series that first aired in 1984 exploring themes of upper class, sibling relationship, loss of loved one, sweden, bishop, dying and death. it stars Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

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