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Release Date: 1987

Cast: Stéphane Audran, Hanne Steensgard, Thomas Antoni, Ghita Nørby, Therese Hojgaard Christensen, Bibi Andersson, Asta Esper Hagen Andersen, Bodil Kjer, Viggo Bentzon, Birgitte Federspiel, Vibeke Hastrup, Gert Bastian ...MORE

Cast: Stéphane Audran, Hanne Steensgard, Thomas Antoni, Ghita Nørby, Therese Hojgaard Christensen, Bibi Andersson, Asta Esper Hagen Andersen, Bodil Kjer, Viggo Bentzon, Birgitte Federspiel, Vibeke Hastrup, Gert Bastian, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont ...LESS

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Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), who also wrote the story which inspired the 1985 Academy Award winning film Out of Africa. 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 was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at... MORE

Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), who also wrote the story which inspired the 1985 Academy Award winning film Out of Africa. 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 was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The elderly and pious Christian 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 strict Christian sect. With their father now dead, and the sect drawing no new converts, the aging sisters preside over their dwindling congregation of white-haired, rural resident believers. The story flashes back 49 years, showing the sisters in their youth. The beautiful sisters have many suitors, but their father rejects them all, and LESS