Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- Danish
- Country
- Denmark
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Danish — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- servant
- charity
- community service
- catholic
- feast
- reconciliation
- sect
- frenchwoman
- coastal village
- master servant relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Stéphane Audran
Babette
Bodil Kjer
Filippa
Birgitte Federspiel
Martine
Jarl Kulle
General Lorens Löwenhielm
- Jean-Philippe Lafont — Achille Papin
- Bibi Andersson — Svensk hofdame
- Ghita Nørby — Fortæller (stemme)
- Asta Esper Hagen Andersen — Anna
- Thomas Antoni — Svensk Løjtnant
- Hanne Stensgaard — Filippa som ung
- Vibeke Hastrup — Martine som ung
- Gudmar Wivesson — Lorens Löwenhielm som ung
- Bendt Rothe — Gamle Nielsen
- Gert Bastian — Fatttig mand
- Viggo Bentzon — Fisker i robåd
- Directed
- Gabriel Axel
- Written
- Gabriel Axel, Annemarie Aaes
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 447 ratings
- Studio
- Rungstedlundfonden, Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film Denmark, Panorama-Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
