Pelle the Conqueror
Pelle the Conqueror

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- 78/100 based on 11,512 votes
  • Released: 1987
  • Runtime: 157 mins
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  • Studio: Det Danske Filminstitut
  • Genres: Drama

When his wife dies, Lassefar (Max von Sydow) takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard), from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. Signing on as laborers at a large farm, father and son undergo numerous trials, including prejudice against immigrants and run-ins with those more powerful than themselves in both the physical and the social sense. Over the course of a year, young Pelle learns what it takes to survive in a harsh and unforgiving worl... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Pelle the Conqueror:

Pelle Hvenegaard
Max von Sydow
Erik Paaske
Björn Granath
Astrid Villaume
Axel Strøbye

Full Plot Details

When his wife dies, Lassefar (Max von Sydow) takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard), from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. Signing on as laborers at a large farm, father and son undergo numerous trials, including prejudice against immigrants and run-ins with those more powerful than themselves in both the physical and the social sense. Over the course of a year, young Pelle learns what it takes to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.

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New York Times - 9/10 by Vincent CanbyA vividly re-created, minutely detailed panorama of a particular time (the turn of the century), place (rural Denmark) and circumstance (life on a great farm) in the course of the four seasons.
Village Voice - 8/10 by Michael AtkinsonPelle itself, rather surprisingly, is a natural, organic epic, and one that opens a window on a meticulously detailed bygone world that, by film's end, you might feel as though you've visited.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Hal HinsonIn Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror, Max von Sydow is so astoundingly evocative that he makes your bones ache. This is a performance that comes from the joints and ligaments; it's conceived in marrow.
Variety - 6/10 by Variety StaffPelle the Conqueror is a feature film of epic proportions and a relentlessly unsentimental look at life among the haves and, primarily, the have-nots on a big turn-of-the-century farm.
KDHX (St. Louis) - 6/10 by Diane CarsonAs Lasse, Max von Sydow brings his supremely accomplished acting to the role.
Orlando Sentinel - 6/10 by Jay BoyarWritten and directed by Bille August, Pelle the Conqueror is peopled with the sort of vivid minor characters that lodge in your consciousness.
Chicago Tribune - 5/10 by Dave KehrThe chilly, oppressive Danish film Pelle the Conqueror has only one artistic aim: to wrench as much pity as possible from its audience.
People Magazine - 3/10 by Peter TraversThe movie -- ravishingly photographed by Jorgen (Elvira Madigan) Persson -- dazzles with incident but fails to find the human focus to validate a lasting claim on the heart.
User Review - 10/10 by Mariah LThis movie has made me weep... it's a historically recycled story, here the Swedish, now the Kurds, Mexicans, and so on until world the world balances out... read somehere that this film is "A Tribute to Migration", I agree and more.
User Review - 10/10 by Gregor HWhat can I say? Max von Sydow breaks the limits of great acting!

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