Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

Max von Sydow: Lassefar

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Pelle : Father?

  Lassefar : Everything's gonna be fine.

  Pelle : Say it again.

  Lassefar : This new country we're going to is very different.

  Pelle : Tell me more about it.

  Lassefar : They put raisins in the pork roast and butter on the bread. They put a lot of butter on the bread. Brandy is as cheap as water and it is so strong that it knocks you off. But your father can take it, Pelle, because he's strong.

  Pelle : And children are free all day.

  Lassefar : Yes, Pelle, yes.

  Pelle : Say it again.

  Lassefar : You get so well-paid that children don't need...

  Pelle : Don't need to work. They can play all day long.

  Lassefar : [smiling]  Yes.

• Lassefar : No one's gonna fool me. I mustn't take the first offer.

• Pelle : [helping his father to remember the name of the prophets]  Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiah and Jeremiah!

  Lassefar : Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiah and Jeremiah!

• [last lines] 

  Lassefar : When we see each other again, maybe you'll have a home to return to.

  Pelle : Say goodbye to Karna for me. Goodbye, father...

• Pelle : Father?

  Lassefar : Can't we just stay here?

  [Pelle nods to say no] 

  Lassefar : You'll have to go without me, Pelle. I don't have strength to travel anymore. I'm too old. Too old. I don't have a future. Do you understand?

  [Pelle nods positively]