Pelle the Conqueror

They thought the world would be theirs.

A somber, intimate portrait of working-class struggle and paternal bonds in 19th-century rural poverty, where dreams of escape collide with systemic exploitation.

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.