Fanny and Alexander

One of the most acclaimed and certainly the most ambitious films by Ingmar Bergman, which he considered his testament.

The story of the Ekdal family, seen through the eyes of two children, siblings Fanny and Alexander. While the family is united and inseparable, the children are happy and can indulge in wonderful dreams without fear. But all of this ends when their father dies and their mother remarries.

Here, Bergman fearlessly and uncompromisingly, albeit in the form of a grand Christmas tale, explores his relationship with his own father (also a priest) and with God, whom he sometimes believed in and sometimes didn't. And at the same time, he explains the role that theater and cinema played in his personal destiny - that magical lantern from his childhood that gave its name to his famous autobiographical book "The Magic Lantern" (A. Dolin).

6 hours—that's how long the original (television) version of the film lasts, which Bergman painstakingly and painfully shortened for theatrical release (and still ended up with three hours and some). Forgive us, old man Bergman, we will still watch the "short" theatrical version.

Four Oscars, BAFTA Awards, Cesar, David di Donatello, Golden Globe, and others