The New Land (1973)

Movie"From "The Emigrants" dream, come the settlers struggle to survive..."
Audience Score
76
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PG 3 hr 24 minOct 26th, 1973History, Western, DramaThe Emigrants Collection PosterPart of The Emigrants Collection
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
StarringMax von SydowLiv UllmannEddie Axberg
DirectorJan Troell

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 26th, 1973
Original Language:Swedish
Production Companies:SF Studios

The Emigrants Collection

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, respectively portray Karl Oskar and Kristina, a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey. The precise, minute detail with which Troell depicts the couple’s story—which is also that of countless other people who sought better lives across the Atlantic—is a wonder to behold. Engrossing at every step of the way, the duo of The Emigrants and The New Land makes for perhaps the greatest screen drama about the settling of America. The film series is based on a series of four novels by the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg. The novels are The Emigrants (1949), Unto a Good Land (1952), The Settlers (1956), and The Last Letter Home (1959).