Rental fee: $15Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $12Members: 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).&nbsp; —Susan Oxtoby

Pelle the Conqueror

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, PELLE THE CONQUEROR stands the test of time. Max von Sydow delivers “an immensely moving, tender depiction of a man cowed by age and servitude” (TIME OUT).

Available April 9–May 10. Watch a recorded conversation with Swedish filmmaker Katinka Faragó, a producer, consultant, production manager, continuity expert, and longtime collaborator with Max von Sydow, moderated by Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator, BAMPFA.

Katinka Faragó on “Remembering Max von Sydow”

Available April 9–May 10. Watch a recorded conversation with Swedish filmmaker Katinka Faragó, a producer, consultant, production manager, continuity expert, and longtime collaborator with Max von Sydow, moderated by Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator, BAMPFA.

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