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Babette's Feast is a danois film of genre Drama directed by Gabriel Axel released in USA on 4 march 1988 with Stéphane Audran
Babette's Feast (1987)
Babettes Gæstebud
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 march 1988
Length 1h42
Directed by Gabriel Axel
OriginDanemark
Themes Cooking films
Rating77%
Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Benni Korzen with funding from the Danish Film Institute, Babette's Feast was the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story. It was also the first Danish film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. Their father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. With their father now dead and the austere sect drawing no new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling congregation of white-haired believers.Actors
Stéphane Audran
(Babette Hersant)
Birgitte Federspiel
(Martine)
Jarl Kulle
(Gen. Lorens Löwenhielm)
Bodil Kjer
(Filippa)
Bibi Andersson
(Svensk hofdame)
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