Babette's Feast
(Babette's gaestebud)

Release date 28th August 1987
Country : Denmark
Running time : 102 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring Stephane Audran
Screenplay by Gabriel Axel based on  the novel by Isak Dinesen
Directed by Gabriel Axel

An honoured pastor of a small Protestant church lives with his two daughters in an isolated village in 19th century Denmark. Both daughters have opportunities to leave the village but choose to dedicate their lives to their father and the church. Babette a refugee from Paris begs them to take her in as a maid/housekeeper/cook. She wins the lottery and proposes to use the money to prepare a gourmet feast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the sisters' father.

A very spiritual movie but definitely not just for the religious it reveals basically as one of the characters says that anything is possible and people of differing backgrounds have much more in common than they realise.

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