
Six Feet Under(2001)
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.


“Glowing, magnificent, enchanting”
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.

Pernilla Allwin
Fanny Ekdahl

Bertil Guve
Alexander Ekdahl

Ewa Fröling
Emilie Ekdahl

Jarl Kulle
Gustav Adolf Ekdahl

Börje Ahlstedt
Carl Ekdahl

Gunn Wållgren
Helena Ekdahl

Ernst Günther
Rector Magnificus

Sune Mangs
Mr. Salenius (Actor)

Pernilla Wahlgren
Esmeralda
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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