PELLE THE CONQUEROR - BLU-30TH ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark's Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year. Max von Sydow was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance and PELLE THE CONQUEROR won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1989, the Palme d'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
• Cast: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max Von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume, Axel Strøbye, Troels Asmussen, Kristina Törnqvist, Karen Wegener, Sofie Gråbøl, Lars Simonsen, Buster Larsen, John Wittig, Troels Munk, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, Lena-Pia Bernhardsson, Anna Lise Hirsch Bjerrum, Vilhelm Weber, Merete Holst Hansen, Mogens Dester, Tine Stochholm, Finn Knygberg, Inge Marie From, Henrik Hansen, Jytte Strandberg, Jørgen Hansen, Nina Christoffersen, Finn Olsen, Lone Svendsen, Thyge Andersen, Birthe Jensen, Henning Franck Hansen, Thomas Hansen, Lars Petersen, Karen Bjørkøe, Espen Hegnet Knudsen, Sascha Lystrup Andersen, Jeppe Nicolaisen, Rikke Hacke, Oliver Grumme, Henriette Nielsen, Benjamin Holk Henriksen, Henriette Nolsøe, Thure Lindhardt, Ingeborg Holten, David Heilman, Daniel Roosen, Kurt Frederiksen, Morten Jørgensen, Bille August, Martin Andersen Nexø, Per Olov Enquist, Bjarne Reuter
• Director: Bille August
• Runtime: 2:30
• Company: Film Movement Classics, Swedish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, SF Studios
• Media Format: Movie