''The Making of Fanny and Alexander'' ( sv, Dokument Fanny och Alexander) is a 1984 Swedish
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
directed by
Ingmar Bergman which traces the making of his film ''
Fanny and Alexander
''Fanny and Alexander'' ( sv, Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. ...
''. Its running length is 110 minutes and it is photographed by
Arne Carlsson.
It debuted at the
Swedish Film Institute on 16 September 1984, with Bergman in attendance to give a speech.
It then aired with a television repeat of ''Fanny and Alexander'' in Sweden on 18 August 1986.
In 2011 in
Region A,
The Criterion Collection
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released ''The Making of Fanny and Alexander'' on
Blu-ray
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as part of their release of ''Fanny and Alexander''.
The film was awarded as "Best documentary" at
Chicago International Film Festival
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1986 and the Golden Gate Award as "Best film about film" at
San Francisco International Film Festival
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1987.
Storyline
It is a documentary chronicle of how Ingmar Bergman made an Oscar winning film.
Cast
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Daniel Bergman
Daniel Sebastian Bergman (; born 7 September 1962) is a Swedish film director. He is the son of Ingmar Bergman and Käbi Laretei.
As a child, Bergman appeared in a 1967 Swedish program called ''Stimulantia'', which consisted of eight episodes, ...
as himself
*
Ingmar Bergman as himself
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Gunnar Björnstrand
Knut Gunnar Johanson (13 November 1909 – 24 May 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer and director Ingmar Bergman.
Biography
Björnstrand was born Knut Gunnar Johanson in Stockholm as son of actor Oscar Johanson a ...
as himself
*
Allan Edwall as himself
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Ewa Fröling
Ewa Fröling, (Eva Marie Fröling; born 9 August 1952) is a Swedish actress and director who was born in Stockholm. She is internationally most recognized for her leading parts in Gunnel Lindblom's ''Sally och friheten'' (as Sally) and Ingmar B ...
as herself
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Lars Karlsson as himself
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Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson (; 15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Life and career ...
as himself
*
Sven Nykvist
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (; 3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman fil ...
as himself
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Peter Schildt
Ernst Peter Jurgen Schildt (born 9 June 1951 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor, screenwriter, film director, theatre director, etc. Schildt began acting at Vår teater, a children's theatre in Stockholm, as a child. He participated in theatre ...
as himself
References
External links
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Criterion Collection essay by Paul Arthur
1984 films
Documentary films about films
Films directed by Ingmar Bergman
Swedish documentary films
1980s Swedish-language films
1984 documentary films
Films set in Uppsala
1980s Swedish films
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