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)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Allan Edwall, Bertil Guve, Borje Ahlstedt, Kristian Almgren, Kristina Adolphson, Pernilla Allwin
Genres: Drama
Alexander, with help from a weird psychic, starts a fire in the Bishop's house, burning him to death.
Tom Day
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Biskopsgården - Bishop Edvard Vergerus: You don't get rid of me that easy.
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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