![]() Martine is courted by an impassioned young Swedish cavalry officer, Lorens Löwenhielm, who is visiting Jutland. They have many suitors, but their father rejects them, as he selfishly wishes to retain the assistance of the young women to further his pastoral mission. The story flashes back 49 years, showing the sisters in their youthful loveliness. Lacking new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling, but faithful, elderly congregation. ![]() Their late father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine ( Birgitte Federspiel) and Filippa ( Bodil Kjer) live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. ![]() It was also the first Danish film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. ![]() ![]() It was produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen and Benni Korzen, with funding from the Danish Film Institute.īabette's Feast was the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story. The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story of the same name by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Babette's Feast ( Danish: Babettes Gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. ![]()
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