“You’ll have to go without me, Pelle. I don’t have strength to travel anymore. I’m too old. Too old. I don’t have a future. Do you understand?” PELLE THE CONQUEROR (1987) screens Friday April 28th ...

Sometimes the mezzobrow film-culture deadlands of the 1980s looked like it was populated almost entirely by opal-eyed European children, spying on hayloft sex and weathering the neglect of peasant ...

Long but rewarding, the Danish-Swedish Pelle the Conqueror is based on the early passages of Martin Andersen Nexoe's four-volume novel. Pelle (Pelle Hvengaard) is the son of a 19th-century Swedish ...

(*****) Pelle the Conqueror (HBO, 150 minutes, not rated, $89.99): Set at the turn of the century, the Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror concerns a Swedish widower named Lasse (Max von Sydow) and his ...

'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' writer Rasmus Heisterberg will adapt the Danish literary classic, the basis for an Oscar-winning film, into an 8-part limited series. By Scott Roxborough HBO Nordic ...

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 ...

Director Bille August’s emotional coming-of-age drama, set in the early 20th century, follows Pelle, a young Swedish immigrant who has come to Denmark with his father, Lasse (Max von Sydow), a widowed ...

The Hives are a meticulously conceived Swedish rock ‘n’ roll cartoon, but it’s their perverse streak that really sets them apart. How else to explain the two pudgy Sopranos rejects – guitarist ...

Plot: A Swedish peasant and his young son immigrate from to Norway and find themselves toiling cheerlessly on a remote and desolate farm owned by a lecher, run by a sadist and staffed by misfits. For ...

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are being slammed for writing letters of support for their That ‘70s Show co-star, Danny Masterson, who’s been convicted of rape. A Haunting in Venice has a plot that ...