Fanny and Alexander
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Biskopsgården - Bishop Edvard Vergerus: You don't get rid of me that easy.

Ekdahlska huset - Alexander Ekdahl: If there is a god, then he's a shit, and I'd like to kick him in the butt.
Jacobis hus - Aron: Your theory is very interesting and appears to be justified.

Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl: The world is a den of thieves and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog.

Teatern - Filip Landahl: ...They no longer wish to hear the songs of giants. They are content with the tunes of dwarfs.

Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl: Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.

Jacobis hus - Isak Jacobi: Everything is alive. And everything is God, or God's intention. Not only the good things, but the cruelest and worst. What do you think?
Ekdahlska huset - Alexander Ekdahl: If there is a God, he's a shit and piss God, that I'd like to kick in the arse.

Factual error: At the beginning all the children sleep in the same room on Christmas night. On the wall in the room, next to the door, hangs a string with five different kinds of small cross flags, including the Swedish and Norwegian flags, which are correct for the era, but also a white flag with a blue cross on the string, even though this is almost a decade before Finland would declare independence.

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Trivia: The film producer Jörn Donner received an Oscar for best foreign movie. He is Finnish. The only Finnish person to have accomplished this to date.

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