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Babettes gæstebud (Babette's Feast) is an Academy award winning 1988 Danish movie.

Based on a story by Isak Dinesen, who also wrote the book that inspired the 1985 Academy award winning film Out of Africa
, Babette's Feast tells the story of Babette Hertsard (Stéphane Audran), a 19th century Parisian political refugee who flees on a boat to Frederikshavn in Denmark with the help of her nephew, and her relationship with two elderly and religious sisters. The sisters Martina (named for Martin Luther) and Philippa (named for Luther's friend and biographer Philip Melanchthon) were the daughters of a pastor who had founded his own religious sect.

Babette works as a cook and housekeeper for Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel) in their house in a small village on the remote and beautiful coast of Jutland. The sisters are shown, through flashbacks, to once have been beautiful women (played by Hanne Stensgaard and Vibeke Hastrup), who had given up their chances at romance and fame, taking refuge in religion. Babette goes on to spend 14 years with the sisters as cook, her only link to her former life being a lottery ticket that a friend in Paris renews for her every year. One day she wins the lottery and decides to use the money to prepare a delicious dinner for the sisters and their small congregation. More than just an epicurean delight the feast is an outpouring of Babette's gratitude.

Babette's Feast, released in 1987, won the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy awards beating out Asignatura aprobada of Spain, Au revoir les enfants of France, La Famiglia of Italy and Ofelas of Norway. It also won a BAFTA Film Award for Best Film not in the English Language and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Babette's Feast was produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Benni Korzen. Its screenplay was written by Gabriel Axel, who was also the director.

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