Pelle the Conqueror PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 30, 2017
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Max Von Sydow | |
Directed by | Bille August | |
Edited by | Janus Billeskov-Jansen | |
Composition by | Stefan Nilsson | |
Director of Photography: | Jörgen Persson |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1988 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Cannes 1988 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...PELLE finds small epiphanies for almost every character in its large cast...
Film Comment
...A vividly re-created, minutely detailed panorama....The Von Sydow performance is in a category by itself...
New York Times
Pelle 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.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Director Bille August and ace Scandinavian cameraman Per Holst make the film a visual treat.
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Empire Magazine
Without Max Von Sydow's central performance this would be a commendable, if not particularly subtle piece of filmmaking. With it, it's something very special.
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Film4
Rating: 1/4 --
Beneath the transparent, by-the-numbers schema there are potent elements at play in this work, but unfortunately they go unexplored.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/4 --
The chilly, oppressive Danish film Pelle the Conqueror has only one artistic aim: to wrench as much pity as possible from its audience.
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Chicago Tribune
Product Description:
PELLE THE CONQUEROR is based on the first of the four volumes of Martin Andersen Nexo's epic novel. Talented Danish director Bille August focuses on Pelle when he and Lasse find work at Stone Farm. After being humiliated by the farm's young trainee manager, Pelle is disappointed when Lasse does not stand up for him. Pelle admires Eric, an older immigrant who is not cowed by the farm manager and who dreams of going to America. He watches as an affair develops between Anna, an immigrant worker, and Nils, son of a local dignitary, and sees the affair's tragic outcome. Pelle's friend Rud fails his school exams, then runs away. Through Pelle, Mrs. Olsen, whose sailor husband is lost at sea, becomes interested in Lasse. Pelle observes the drinking of Mrs. Kongstrup, wife of the farm's owner, and the philandering of her husband. He sees Mrs. Kongstrup's niece, the lovely Sine, arrive and witnesses the disastrous consequences of her visit. At the center of these events is the striking young Pelle Hvenegaard. It is his face that August focuses on, his mind that is forming right onscreen, as Pelle observes and reacts and learns and, then, moves on alone.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 79,472
- UPC: 859686006147
- Shipping Weight: 0.23/lbs (approx)
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