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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Pelle the Conqueror, it follows Swedish rural hardship and migration with patient, unsentimental detail, finding immense feeling in endurance, family bonds, and the fragile promise of a new life.
02
Why this pick
Jan Troell’s continuation of The Emigrants shares Pelle’s epic yet intimate view of Scandinavian working people, where hope is continually tested by labour, poverty, isolation, and landscape.
03
Why this pick
Its close attention to a peasant community’s daily labour, dignity, faith, and economic vulnerability echoes the compassionate social realism and unhurried human scale of Pelle the Conqueror.
04
Why this pick
Another Danish historical drama about a determined outsider confronting a brutal class order, with stark landscapes and a forceful struggle for dignity, belonging, and a place to call home.
05
Why this pick
This harsh Swedish rural tale similarly examines exploitation and class cruelty through an emotionally direct, deeply compassionate portrait of someone denied power and respect.
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01 / THE STORY
In the late 1850s, the elderly emigrant Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle arrive to the Danish island of Bornholm from Skåne County, in southern Sweden. Lasse tells Pelle a better life awaits them in Denmark after the death of Pelle's mother, and seeks work. He immediately finds it difficult to find employment, given his advanced age and Pelle's youth. The most they can find is work at a large farm, where they are generally mistreated by the managers.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Pelle
Lassefar
Forvalter / Foreman
Niels Køller
Ole Køller
Soen / The Sow
Erik
