Countries & Movies: Denmark
The best Danish film, according to FilmGourmand, is "Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)", 1987. Director Bille August.
The Swedish film company also participated in the creation of this film. But at all international film festivals, "Pelle the Conqueror" represented Denmark.
The film premiered in Copenhagen on December 13, 1987.
The film "Pelle the Conqueror" is a film adaptation of one of the four parts of the epic novel of the Danish writer Martin Andersen-Nexø (1869-1954), the founder of the Danish Communist Party. The novel was published in 1906-1910. In the Soviet Union, this novel was published in a 10-volume collected works in 1951-1954.
In 1988, "Pelle the Conqueror" received 4 Bodil awards: as the best Danish film (needless to say) and in three acting nominations.
In the same 1988, the film was awarded the Palme d'Or of the Cannes International Film Festival. In the same year, Bille August's film was nominated for the European Film Award, but lost in this competition to Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Krótki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film About Killing)".
The next year, 1989, "Pelle the Conqueror" won the Golden Globe and Academy Award. Both awards - in the nomination Best Foreign Language Film. In the same year, the film was nominated for the French César Award, but the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts preferred the German film "Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Cafe)".
In 1990, "Pelle the Conqueror" was nominated for the British BAFTA Award. But this time as well the winner was another film - "La vie et rien d'autre (Life and Nothing But)" by Bertrand Tavernier.
The generalized perception of the film "Pelle the Conqueror" by film critics best reflects its assessment by Roger Ebert, who awarded the film 3.5 stars out of 4 possible.
66% of IMDB and Kinopoisk users around the world gave this film a rating from 8 to 10.
Based on the foregoing, the rating of the film "Pelle the Conqueror", according to FilmGourmand, was 9,702, which allowed the film to take 60th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
In addition to the film "Pelle the Conqueror," the top ten Danish films included:
- "Dancer in the Dark", by Lars von Trier, 2000. Movie's Rating - 9,573. 67th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Ordet (The Word)", by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955. Movie's Rating - 9,365. 89th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Jagten (The Hunt)", by Thomas Winterberg, 2012. Movie's Rating - 9,181. 122nd Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Dogville", by Lars von Trier, 2003. Movie's Rating - 9,06. 145th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Breaking the Waves", by Lars von Trier, 1996. Movie's Rating - 8,998. 158th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "En kongelig affære (A Royal Affair)", by Nikolaj Arcel, 2012. Movie's Rating - 8,126. 562nd Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Vredens dag (Day of Wrath)", by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943. Movie's Rating - 8,112. 577th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Europa", by Lars von Trier, 1991. Movie's Rating - 7,867. 899th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
- "Under sandet (Land of Mine)", by Martin Zandvliet, 2015.