The Making of Fanny and Alexander

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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
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Poster of The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Written byIngmar Bergman
StarringIngmar Bergman
Daniel Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand
Allan Edwall
Ewa Fröling
Lars Karlsson
Erland Josephson
Sven Nykvist
Peter Schildt
CinematographyArne Carlsson
Edited by Sylvia Ingemarsson
Release date
  • 16 September 1984 (1984-09-16)
Running time
110 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

The Making of Fanny and Alexander (Swedish : Dokument Fanny och Alexander) is a 1984 Swedish documentary film directed by Ingmar Bergman which traces the making of his film Fanny and Alexander . [1] Its running length is 110 minutes and it is photographed by Arne Carlsson. [2] It debuted at the Swedish Film Institute on 16 September 1984, with Bergman in attendance to give a speech. [2] It then aired with a television repeat of Fanny and Alexander in Sweden on 18 August 1986. [2] In 2011 in Region A, The Criterion Collection released The Making of Fanny and Alexander on Blu-ray as part of their release of Fanny and Alexander. [3]

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The film was awarded as "Best documentary" at Chicago International Film Festival 1986 and the Golden Gate Award as "Best film about film" at San Francisco International Film Festival 1987.[ citation needed ]

Storyline

It is a documentary chronicle of how Ingmar Bergman made an Oscar winning film. [4]

Cast [4]


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References

  1. "Dokument Fanny och Alexander". Ingmar Bergman. 24 January 1986. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Steene, Birgitta (2005). Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 332. ISBN   9053564063.
  3. Cabin, Chris (10 November 2011). "Fanny and Alexander". Slant Magazine .
  4. 1 2 The Making of Fanny and Alexander , retrieved 10 March 2021