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Babette's Feast(1987)
Status: Released
Date: 1987-08-11
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410 Votes
Time: 1h 44m
Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast.
Overview:
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
Languages: Danish, French, Hungarian, Swedish.
Countries:
Denmark
Revenue: $4,398,938.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Rungstedlundfonden
Panorama-Film
Movie: Babette's Feast
Top 10 Billed Cast
Stéphane Audran
Babette Hersant
Bodil Kjer
Filippa
Birgitte Federspiel
Martine
Jarl Kulle
Gen. Lorens Löwenhielm
Jean-Philippe Lafont
Achille Papin
Bibi Andersson
Swedish Lady-in-Waiting
Ghita Nørby
Narrator (voice)
Asta Esper Hagen Andersen
Anna
Hanne Stensgaard
Young Filippa
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