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.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Allan Edwall, Bertil Guve, Borje Ahlstedt, Kristian Almgren, Kristina Adolphson, Pernilla Allwin
Genres: Drama
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.
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.
