Word: hvenegaard
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...Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard) lies on the bed after taking a beating from some of the farm hands, the flies swarm about his soiled T-shirt. Here and throughout the film, the viewer gets a very real sense of the poverty in which he and his father live. And the juxtaposition of this poverty with the plush interior of Lasse's house in the following scene brings the viewer to a heightened awareness of their living conditions...
...Hvenegaard, now 14, was chosen to play Pelle from an audition against 4000 other young actors. Before the filming of Pelle, he had never acted before and was chosen to audition based on a photograph sent to the producers of the movie. Interestingly enough, his mother named him for the lead character of Nexo's novel while she was still pregnant...
PELLE THE CONQUEROR. A timid old Swede and his dashing young son find work on a 19th century Danish farm. Aided by stars Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard, director Bille August cuts a stern, colorful grand swatch of masterpiece cinema...
PELLE THE CONQUEROR. A timid old Swede and his dashing young son find work on a 19th century Danish farm. Aided by stars Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard, director Bille August cuts a stern, colorful grand swatch of masterpiece cinema...
PELLE THE CONQUEROR. A timid old Swede and his dashing young son find work on a 19th-century Danish farm. Aided by stars Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard, director Bille August cuts a stern, colorful, grand swatch of Masterpiece Cinema...