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With its strong performances and striking location cinematography, Pelle the Conqueror earned Bille August international acclaim as a director. Max von Sydow was nominated for an Academy Award for his immensely moving performance as Lasse Karlsson, an aging farmhand and widower who emigrates from poverty-stricken Sweden to the Danish island of Bornholm with his young son Pelle (Pelle Hevenegaard) in search of a better life. Adapted from volume one, Boyhood, of the four-part novel Pelle Erobreren by the Danish proletarian writer Martin Andersen Nexø, this nineteenth-century epic deals with class inequities in rural society, where Lasse and Pelle live under impoverished conditions yet hold out some hope for the future. Story has it that Ingmar Bergman watched the film seven times before inviting August to direct The Best Intentions (written by Bergman).
—Susan Oxtoby
- Year1987
- Runtime157 minutes
- LanguageScanian, Danish, Swedish
- CountryDenmark, Sweden
- DirectorBille August
- ScreenwriterBille August, Per Olov Enquist, Bjarne Reuter, Max Lundgren
- CastMax von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske, Bjørn Granath
- CinematographerJörgen Persson
Rental fee: $15
Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $12
Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications.
With its strong performances and striking location cinematography, Pelle the Conqueror earned Bille August international acclaim as a director. Max von Sydow was nominated for an Academy Award for his immensely moving performance as Lasse Karlsson, an aging farmhand and widower who emigrates from poverty-stricken Sweden to the Danish island of Bornholm with his young son Pelle (Pelle Hevenegaard) in search of a better life. Adapted from volume one, Boyhood, of the four-part novel Pelle Erobreren by the Danish proletarian writer Martin Andersen Nexø, this nineteenth-century epic deals with class inequities in rural society, where Lasse and Pelle live under impoverished conditions yet hold out some hope for the future. Story has it that Ingmar Bergman watched the film seven times before inviting August to direct The Best Intentions (written by Bergman).
—Susan Oxtoby
- Year1987
- Runtime157 minutes
- LanguageScanian, Danish, Swedish
- CountryDenmark, Sweden
- DirectorBille August
- ScreenwriterBille August, Per Olov Enquist, Bjarne Reuter, Max Lundgren
- CastMax von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske, Bjørn Granath
- CinematographerJörgen Persson