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Pelle the Conqueror won the Palme d'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival [20] The film also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1988; [21] it was submitted to the Academy by the Danish government, giving Denmark its second consecutive win after Babette's Feast. [22]
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Dec 21, 1988 · Pelle the Conqueror: Directed by Bille August. With Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath. When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
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PELLE EROBREREN - Festival de Cannes. Bille AUGUST. 1988. In Competition. Feature Films. Palme d'or 1988. Swedish Lasse and his 9 years old son Pelle emigrate to Denmark at the end of the last century. They get the ungrateful job of cattlemen on a farm, where they are treated like slaves.
BAFTA Awards. 1990 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best Film not in the English Language. Per Holst. Bille August.
Early one morning a boat brings Swedish immigrants to Denmark's shores. On board are Pelle, eight years old, and his father Lasse. They are looking forward to a better life in their adopted country, but it turns out that hard work and poverty are to be their lot. Pelle, however, never gives up his dreams.
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