Pelle the Conqueror

“They thought the world would be theirs.”

Why would a father and his young son leave Sweden for a Danish island with almost nothing, hoping to earn enough to reach America? Lasse Karlsson (Max von Sydow) and Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard) arrive on Bornholm in the late 1800s and take work on a farm. Bille August follows Lasse as he swallows each insult from the foreman and the farm's owners, because the boy's chance depends on his silence.