UW Cinematheque - New Restorations and Special Presentations
Fanny and Alexander | Sweden | 1982 | 35mm | 188 min. | Swedish with English subtitles Director: Ingmar Bergman
Event Details
Date
Saturday, December 12, 2026
Time
2 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Jan Malmsjö
At the twilight of his illustrious career, Bergman mined his own childhood memories for this moving family drama told on a grand scale. When the patriarch of the Ekdahls, a Swedish family of actors in the early twentieth century, dies suddenly, the children (Allwin and Guve) must adjust to life under Bishop Edvard (Malmsjö), their mother’s cruel new husband.
At the twilight of his illustrious career, Bergman mined his own childhood memories for this moving family drama told on a grand scale. When the patriarch of the Ekdahls, a Swedish family of actors in the early twentieth century, dies suddenly, the children (Allwin and Guve) must adjust to life under Bishop Edvard (Malmsjö), their mother’s cruel new husband.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, November 28, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.