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“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 The Conqueror (1987) screens Friday April 28th through Sunday April 30th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 all three evenings.

In the Oscar-winning classic Pelle The Conqueror, Lassefar (Max von Sydow), an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle (Belle Hvenegaard), join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark’s Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship, which sustains them through a difficult year. Pelle The Conqueror offers a deep insight into the life of immigrants from one country of Scandenavia to the other.

“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 The Conqueror (1987) screens Friday April 28th through Sunday April 30th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 all three evenings.

In the Oscar-winning classic Pelle The Conqueror, Lassefar (Max von Sydow), an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle (Belle Hvenegaard), join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark’s Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship, which sustains them through a difficult year. Pelle The Conqueror offers a deep insight into the life of immigrants from one country of Scandenavia to the other.

After an emotional week in Arkansas, Johnny Depp let his hair down last night in Los Angeles.

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor was spotted out at the The Nice Guy in West Hollywood on Wednesday night, where an onlooker tells People, “He was in the best spirits.”

At the bar, Depp’s group “sipped on specialty cocktails such as ‘The Chairman’ and ‘The Stand Up Guy’ and indulged on ‘The Nice Guy Burger,’ truffle fries, roasted brussels sprouts and the Wally’s charcuterie board.”

The onlooker adds, “He and his group shared plates at their table and ordered a couple rounds of those cocktails.

Johnny Depp is taking a stand against the death penalty.

The actor joined hundreds of activists outside the Arkansas state capitol building on Friday. They had gathered to protest Governor Thomas Hutchinson’s decision to execute seven men in 10 days because the state’s execution drugs are expiring.

Depp accompanied Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three, who spent nearly two decades on death row in Arkansas. Accused of the 1993 murder of three eight-year-old boys, Echols was later released when new DNA evidence proved he was not the killer. Depp commented on the case in the HBO documentary Paradise Lost.

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