Pelle the Conqueror
Subtitle: [Pelle Erobreren]
By: fotograf, Jörgen Persson ; production design, Anna Asp ; musik, Stefan Nilsson ; produktionsleder, Lars Kolvig ; klip, Janus Billeskov Jansen ; en film af Bille August ; manuskript, Bille August, Per Olov Enquist, Bjarne Reuter ; produktion, Per Holst Filmproduktion, Svensk Filmindustri [and others]
Contributors: Hvenegaard, Pelle, 1975- actor; Sydow, Max von, 1929- actor; Paaske, Erik, 1933-1992, actor; Andersen Nexø, Martin, 1869-1954; Cowie, Peter; Per Holst filmproduktion; Svensk filmindustri
Series: Film Movement classics
Published: 2017
Language: dan
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Drama; Immigrants; Film adaptations; Fathers and sons; Swedes
Other titles: Pelle Erobreren; Pelle Erobreren (Motion picture)
Description: In the end of the nineteenth century, a widowed farmer and his young son come from an impoverished region of Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.

Title from container and disc surface (no title frame in DVD release); credits from film frames.

Based on the novel by Martin Andersen Nexø.

Wide screen 1.66:1.

Features: commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie.

Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

For private home use only.

In Danish and Swedish with optional English subtitles.