Editing Pelle the Conqueror (section)

===Filming===
The film marked the first collaboration between production designer [[Anna Asp]], who had previously worked on ''[[Offret]]'' (1986), and August, who had attended a [[Stockholm]] school of photography with her.{{sfn|Ettedgui|1999|p=109}} Asp said that in designing the house seen in ''Pelle the Conqueror'', she wanted to evoke a prison, and thus built the walls and painted them black and white.{{sfn|Ettedgui|1999|p=114}}

Filming took place for nearly six months. Its budget of $4.5&nbsp;million, secured from the Danish and Swedish film institutes, made it one of the most costly films made in the Scandinavian countries.<ref name="Russell" />