Fanny och Alexander plot
Fanny and Alexander are members of the lavish and colorful Ekdahl family in a Swedish town in the early 1900s. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, both run the local theater, assisted by Oscar's mother and brother. When Oscar dies at an early age, widow Emilie marries a bishop and they move with the two children to his stern and austere chancellery. The children immediately feel deeply unhappy.