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Babette's Feast 1987

type: Movie

language: Danish

duration: 103 min

genre: drama

theme: food and drink

director: Gabriel Axel

Score: 6 / 10

Babette's Feast is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). It was produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen and Benni Korzen, with funding from the Danish Film Institute. It stars Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, and Bodil Kjer.

Plot

The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine and Filippa live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. Their late father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. Lacking new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling, elderly congregation.

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author	Gabriel Axel
award	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
contentLocation	Denmark
director	Gabriel Axel
editor	Finn Henriksen
events	cooking
genre	drama
keywords	attaché baritone bloodshed café anglais cavalry officer conventicle counter-revolutionary bloodshed in paris end french cuisine french dinner jutland list of swedish cavalry regiments lottery lottery ticket married monarchy of denmark paris commune paris opera pietism pietistic protestant protestantism queen\'s court reject small village speak swedish cavalry tick
musicBy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q434392
nomination	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film International Submission to the Academy Awards
producer	Benni Korzen Bo Christensen Just Betzer
productionCompany	Nordisk Film
theme	food and drink romantic drama