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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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 TimesVincent 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 VoiceMichael 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 PostHal 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. |
| VarietyVariety 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)Diane CarsonAs Lasse, Max von Sydow brings his supremely accomplished acting to the role. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarWritten and directed by Bille August, Pelle the Conqueror is peopled with the sort of vivid minor characters that lodge in your consciousness. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrThe chilly, oppressive Danish film Pelle the Conqueror has only one artistic aim: to wrench as much pity as possible from its audience. |
| People MagazinePeter 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 ReviewMariah 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 ReviewGregor HWhat can I say? Max von Sydow breaks the limits of great acting! |
