Babette's Feast

Danish-born French director Gabriel Axel's opening to his 1987 adaptation of the story by Danish writer Isak Dinesen, introducing sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Filippa (Bodil Kjer) and their maid, the title character, Stephane Audran, opening Babette's Feast, 1987.

In rural Denmark ca. 1837, on-hiatus Paris opera star Achille Papin (Jean-Pilippe Lafont) meets preacher Nielsen (Bendt Rothe) and his daughters Martine (Vibeke Hastrup) and Filippa (Hanne Stensgaard), in whom he takes particular interest, inside a flashback in Babette's Feast, 1987.

Western coast of Denmark, 1871, French refugee Stephane Audran (title character) presents herself at the rural home of sisters Martine and Filippa (Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer), bearing a letter from a French opera singer (Jean-Philippe Lafont) they met long ago, in Babette's Feast, 1987.