Pelle Hvenegaard

Birth : 1975-08-29, Copenhagen, Denmark

History

Pelle Hvenegaard is a Danish actor and TV writer. For his role in the Palm d'Or-winning Pelle the Conqueror, he won the European Film Award for Best Young Actor and the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Foreign Film.

Profile

Movies

A Christmas Too Many

Danish Director

Disaster strikes when an aging actress invites her eccentric family to Hollywood for the holidays.

På fremmed mark

Jacob

Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villages. There, Jacob is befriended by Sergeant Holt, a cynical soldier.

Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle Karlsson

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.