Criterion Blu-ray review: Jan Troell’s The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972)
Criterion releases a superb Blu-ray edition of Jan Troell’s 2-part epic about poor Swedish farmers looking for a new life in the US in the mid-19th […]
Review: The New Land (1972)
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Allan Edwall, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt,
Max von Sydow
Liv Ullmann
Allan Edwall
Eddie Axberg
Pierre Lindstedt
Plot: 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.
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