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    Babette’s Feast (1987)

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    Gabriel Axel’s Danish film – and 1987’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film – is an Isak Dinesen tale about a 19th-century French servant and refugee (beautifully, stoically played by Stephane Audran) who seeks shelter in a strict Lutheran household in a rough Danish coastal town.

    To repay her hard, deprived hosts for their kindness, she spends her entire lottery winnings doing the one thing she knows how to do best – she cooks an elaborate, exotic, eponymous meal for the entire village, filled with game and liquors and desserts they’ve never experienced before.

    The meticulous preparation, serving, and devouring of this feast changes the lives of everyone involved, enhancing the true meaning of friendship.

    Impeccably acted, and suffused with charm and delicacy, this is one film that’s a meal in itself.

    Babette Hersant
    Stephane Audran
    Filippa
    Bodil Kjer
    Martine
    Brigitte Federspiel
    Achille Papin
    Jean-Phillipe Lafont
    General Lorens Löwenhielm/Löwenhielm’s Father
    Jarl Kulle
    Swedish Lady-in-Waiting
    Bibi Andersson
    Narrator 
    Ghita Nørby
    Anna
    Asta Esper Andersen
    Swedish Lieutenant
    Thomas Antoni
    Poor Man
    Gert Bastian
    Fisherman in Rowboat
    Viggo Bentzon
    Young Martine
    Vibeke Hastrup
    Martha
    Therese Højgaard Christensen
    Pastor
    Pouel Kern
    Poul
    Cay Kristiansen
    Löwenhielm’s Wife
    Tine Miehe-Renard
    Larsen
    Finn Nielsen
    Karlsen
    Holger Perfort
    Solveig
    Else Petersen
    Erik
    Erik Petersén
    Christopher
    Ebbe Rode
    Old Nielsen
    Bendt Rothe
    Captain
    Preben Lerdorff Rye
    Young Filippa
    Hanne Stensgaard

    Director
    Gabriel Axel

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