Fanny and Alexander (TV Mini Series)

Demonerna (1983)

Bertil Guve: Alexander Ekdahl

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• Alexander Ekdahl : [telling a Fanny and Alexander a story]  Suddenly, one evening he finds himself standing in a forest. Dusk sets in and all is quiet. Perhaps the evening wind sighs through the tall trees. He stands amazed but also anxious and suspicious. He's all alone - and he discovers his hearing is weak, since his ears are inflamed from the merciless light of day. His mouth and throat are parched from the long pilgrimage. His lips are cracked, pressed together around curses and harsh words. So he doesn't hear the ripple of flowing water and doesn't notice its reflection in the dusk. He stands deaf and blind at the edge of the spring unaware of its existence. Like a sleepwalker he wanders unaware between the sparkling pools. His blind skill is remarkable, and soon he's back onto the road in the burning, shadowless light.

• Alexander Ekdahl : His Grace is careful to spare his family such trivial worries.

  Henrietta Vergérus : What worries of his could concern you?

  Alexander Ekdahl : Please don't force me to be vulgar.

• Alexander Ekdahl : I appreciate your straightforwardness.

  Henrietta Vergérus : And I do not appreciate your fawning.

• Alexander Ekdahl : A pecuniary predicament.

  Henrietta Vergérus : I beg your pardon?

  Alexander Ekdahl : Your brother, His Grace, was in a pecuniary predicament.

• Henrietta Vergérus : Forgive me if I retire.

  Alexander Ekdahl : I shall miss you, Miss Vergerus.

  Henrietta Vergérus : Do not take anything that is not your due.

  Alexander Ekdahl : Suspicions recoil on those who harbor them.

• Aron Retzinsky : The smallest pebble has a life of its own. More coffee?

  Alexander Ekdahl : Thanks, please.

  Aron Retzinsky : Everything is alive - and everything is God or God's thought. Not only good things, but the cruelest too. What do you think?

  Alexander Ekdahl : If there is a God, then he's a shit and I'd like to kick him in the butt.

  Aron Retzinsky : Your theory is very interesting, Alexander, and appears to be justified.

• Alexander Ekdahl : I know quite a bit about ghosts.

  Aron Retzinsky : Do you? Uncle Isak says we're surrounded by different realities, one on top of the other. There are swarms of ghosts, spirits, phantoms, souls, poltergeists, angels and demons.

• Ismael Retzinsky : My name is Ismael, but you already know that. "And he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him." I'm considered dangerous. That's why I'm locked up.

  Alexander Ekdahl : Dangerous in what way?

  Ismael Retzinsky : Write your name here. The pencil's pretty dull, but it should still serve. There, Alexander Ekdahl. Now read what you've written.

  Alexander Ekdahl : It says "Ismael Retzinsky"?

  Ismael Retzinsky : Perhaps we're the same person, with no boundaries. Perhaps we flow through each other, stream through each other boundlessly and magnificently.