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Director:
Writers:
Martin Andersen Nexø (novel)
Bille August (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 December 1988 (USA) more
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Tagline:
De trodde att världen skulle bli deras
Plot:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 20 wins & 4 nominations more
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(2 articles)
Birthday Suits: Nov 9th
 (From FilmExperience. 9 November 2009, 7:35 AM, PST)

Germany (Oscar) Hopeful with Haneke's The White Ribbon
 (From ioncinema. 27 August 2009)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Pelle Hvenegaard ... Pelle

Max von Sydow ... Lassefar
Erik Paaske ... Forvalter / Foreman
Björn Granath ... Erik (as Bjørn Granath)
Astrid Villaume ... Fru Kongstrup / Mrs. Kongstrup
Axel Strøbye ... Kongstrup
Troels Asmussen ... Rud
Kristina Törnqvist ... Anna
Karen Wegener ... Madam Olsen / Mrs. Olsen
Sofie Gråbøl ... Jomfru Sine / Miss Sine
Lars Simonsen ... Niels Køller
Buster Larsen ... Ole Køller
John Wittig ... Skolelærer / School teacher
Troels Munk ... Læge / Doctor
Nis Bank-Mikkelsen ... Præst / Clergyman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Pelle the Conqueror (UK) (USA)
Pelle erövraren (Sweden)
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Runtime:
157 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Only the second Danish film to scoop the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Babette's Feast (1987) having done it the year before. more
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Featured in Bille & Pelle (1988) (TV) more

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Beautiful Rendering of a Difficult Life, 24 February 2008
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Author: (normangelman@verizon.net) from Washington, D.C.

Pelle the Conqueror won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film when it was originally released. Although I did not see it then, it is certainly easy to see why it received that answer. It is an unsparing tale of the life of a Swedish immigrant father and son (Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard) who have come to Denmark following the death of wife and mother and found work as laborers on a farm in a desolate seaside landscape. It is, to avoid giving details, a terrible life. I'm told that this is a very thin slice from a four-volume novel. So despite the film's 2-1/2 hour length, what we're shown is a tiny piece of a much larger canvas. Max von Sydow, a famous actor in his day, is superb as the elderly father of young Pelle but the child's role is also very well acted, and the direction by Bille August who also wrote the screenplay is unobtrusive but sure-handed. Since it is set in the 19th Century, there is nothing dated about this film. It is a masterwork.

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