 After the Wedding 2006  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgard, Stine Fischer Christensen, Mona Malm, Christian Tafdrup, Niels Anders Thorn, Neeral Mulchandani, Ida Dwinger, Meenal Patel
Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) runs an orphanage in India, but the orphanage is threatened by closure. Hope comes in the form of four million dollars offered by Danish Businessman Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) if Jacob will come to Denmark. Jacob takes the trip to Copenhagen and meets with Jorgen who now wants to discuss the financing at his daughter Anna's (Stine Fischer Christensen) wedding the next day. At the wedding, Jacob and Jorgen's wife Helene (Sidse Babett Knudsen) appear to have a connection, but it is not until the wedding toast that past, present, and future come together. An Oscar nomination was received for Best Foreign Language Film.
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All These Women 1964  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Now About All These Women
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Jarl Kulle, Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Allan Edwall, Georg Funkquist, Eva Dahlbeck, Gertrud Fridh, Karin Kavli, Mona Malm, Carl Billquist
A classical musician is compelled to have sex with every woman he meets and agrees to a deal with a music critic who plans to write his biography.
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Fanny and Alexander 1982  R, 200 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Mystery
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ewa Froling, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Gunn Wallgren, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Borje Ahlstedt, Christina Schollin, Allan Edwall, Jarl Kulle, Mona Malm, Pernilla Wahlgren, Jan Malmsjo, Kerstin Tidelius
Oscar (Allan Edwall)and Emilie (Ewa Froling) are successful entertainers, until Oscar dies leaving widowed Emilie to raise their two children, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve). Emilie remarries, and she and the children move into the austere home of her new husband, Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). Lacking the comforts that Fanny and Alexander had known, the children are very unhappy–until their grandmother (Gunn Wallgren) takes them into her home and showers them with affection. Now, at last, the children find refuge. This film won four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Film. Ingmar Bergman was also nominated for Best Director.
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| 1. After the Wedding (2006)
2. All These Women (1964)
aka: Now About All These Women
3. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
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