Long but rewarding, the Danish-Swedish Pelle the Conqueror is based on the early passages of Martin Andersen Nexø's four-volume novel. Pelle (Pelle Hvengaard) is the son of a 19th-century Swedish farmer (Max Von Sydow). Seeking escape from their poverty-stricken surroundings, father and son emigrate to Denmark. Upon arrival, however, they are treated like indentured servants, leading to a profound ideological turnaround for the impressionable Pelle. In the original novel, he ended up embracing Communism, but Nexø's political overtones are soft-pedalled in the film, which concentrates on the close, indestructible relationship between Pelle and his father. Directed by Bille August, Pelle the Conqueror won the 1988 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.


STARS.........: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske
DIRECTOR......: Bille August
WRITERS.......: Bille August, Per Olov Enquist, Bjarne Reuter
GENRE.........: Drama
TOMATOMETER...: 87
IMDB RATING...: 7.9/10  8,606 votes
IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093713
RUNTIME.......: 2h 30mn
SIZE..........: 5.56 GB
VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main-L4)
BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO.........: Swedish AAC 2.0 192kbps
AUDIO.........: Commentary by Peter Cowie
SUBTITLES.....: ENG
CHAPTERS......: Yes
SOURCE........: Film Movement Blu Ray
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2018-02-24


NOTE: Some of the darker scenes have a soft whitish grain that didn't encode well. I did some higher bitrate tests and it didn't look much better so I left it at 5000kbps