**ACADEMY AWARD AND GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM**

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, 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.

Bonus Feature: Commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie.

Package includes:

Collector's Booklet with film essay by academic/film critic, Terrence Rafferty; cast and crew credits; chapter breaks; stills.