Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Pelle erobreren
Date: January 01, 1987, December 31, 1987
Dates Note: 1987
Country of Origin:
Denmark
,
Sweden
Place of Origin: Denmark, Sweden
Languages:
Scanian
,
Danish
,
Swedish
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: the novel Pelle Erobreren by Martin Andersen Nexø
Additional Info:
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 Hvenegaard) 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).