The making of Fanny and Alexander [videorecording] / directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable, but befriend a local Jewish merchant whose odd house becomes the children's refuge.

Ingmar Bergman, Sven Nykvist, Erland Josephson and Gunnar Bjornstrand.