Babette's Feast
Babettes gæstebud
1987
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) — 60th Academy Awards
- Director:
- Gabriel Axel
- Studio:
- Nordisk Film
- Starring:
- Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer
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In a remote, devout Danish coastal village, elderly sisters Martine and Filippa have spent their lives tending their late father's austere religious community, having each given up a chance at love and a life beyond the village. Babette, a French refugee fleeing political turmoil, arrives and works as their housekeeper for fourteen years. After winning a lottery, she spends her entire winnings on an elaborate French feast for the congregation, and the meal's sensuous generosity quietly overwhelms the villagers' guarded piety, revealing Babette to have once been a celebrated Parisian chef.