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• Gertrud | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Carl Dreyer's last film neatly crowns his career: a meditation on tragedy individual will and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love - but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks. Always the stylistic innovator Dreyer employs long takes and theatrical staging to concentrate on Nina Pens Rode's sublime portrayal of the proud and courageous Ge

• Pelle The Conqueror | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Winner of the Adademy Award for best Foreign Picture this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son Pelle from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His illusory quest for the good life leads only to a straw bed in the cold barn of a brutally insensitive farmer. The story centres around the close relationship between the father and son as they attempt to live a happy life amid the oppression. As a hopeful Pelle grows older he wants to see more of the world and sets out on his own full of questions and a need to know and conquer..... Winner of the Palm d'Or at the 1988 Cannes film festival; an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film in 1989; and a Golden Globe also in 1989.