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Pelle The Conqueror

1987, Movie, PG-13, 160 mins

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Bille August, the director of TWIST AND SHOUT (1986), the most commercially successful Danish film ever, followed that teen drama with this Swedish-Danish coproduction set in the 1890s and starring Max von Sydow as an impoverished Swedish widower who moves to Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic, hoping to improve his lot in life. He takes along his seven-year-old son, Hvenegaard, but instead of finding a better life, they are reduced to virtual slavery. A grim story of d... read more leave a comment
Swedish account of a boy and his elderly father who attempt to eke out a living as farmhands in turn-of-the-century Denmark. Acclaimed at Cannes, Golden Globes, and Academy Awards!
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Length: 00:34
Posted: 3/17/2008
Year: 1987
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Max von Sydow: Pappa Lasse
Pelle Hvenegaard: Pelle, His Son
Erik Paaske: Farm Foreman
Bjorn Granath: Farmhand Erik
Axel Strobye: Kongstrup
Astrid Villaume: Mrs. Kongstrup

 

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