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Babette's feast [videorecording (DVD)].

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MGM Home Entertainment, 2001.

Cooks -- Drama.

World films (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.)

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Babettes gaestebud [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (103 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the story by Isak Dinesen.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987.

Includes audio tracks in English (mono.), Danish & French (stereo. Surround) and Spanish (Stereo. Surround) with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Panorama Film International Production ; produced by Just Betzer and Bo Christensen ; written and directed by Gabriel Axel.

Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer, Bibi Anderson, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont and Ebbe Rode.

"Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast. Written and directed by Gabriel Axel, from a short story by Out of Africa's Isak Dinesen, this Oscar-winning film offers 'an irresistible mixture of dry wit and robust humanity' (Newsweek). On the desolate coast of Denmark live Martina and Philippa, the beautiful daughters of a devout clergyman who preaches salvation through self-denial. Both girls sacrifice youthful passion to faith and duty, and even many years after their father's death, they keep his austere teachings alive among the townspeople. But with the arrival of Babette, a mysterious refugee from France's civil war, life for the sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Soon, Babette has convinced them to try something truly outrageous -- a gourmet French meal! Her feast, of course, scandalizes the local elders. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?"--Container.

Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, 1987.

Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. Anecdotes of destiny.

Audran, Stéphane, 1932-

Federspiel, Birgitte.

Kjer, Bodil, 1917-

Andersson, Bibi.

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