Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuSmåland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
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- (as Svenolof Bern)
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WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesWhen filming the scene towards the end, where Karl Oskar walks off to find a better place for his settlement, director Jan Troell forgot to yell, "Cut." Max von Sydow just kept walking and walking, waiting for a "cut", and nobody realized until they took lunch.
- PatzerOn the train west a character shows an American silver coin and yells out it has "In God We Trust" on it. The scene is the 1850s and the motto was not added to American silver coins until 1867.
- Zitate
Arvid: What do you think it will cost to ship us there?
Robert: Around 200 riksdaler.
Arvid: Ya, well, might as well forget it. 200 riksdaler. I'll never have that much.
Robert: You don't have it?
Arvid: I will go anyway. We can travel to America on foot.
Robert: Nah, there's an ocean. You can't go on foot to America.
Arvid: Do you mean there is no way?
Robert: I'm afraid there is not. America is an island.
Arvid: Damned ocean.
- Alternative VersionenThe USA television version, retitled "The Emigrant Saga", consists of this film plus its sequel, Das neue Land (1972), joined and re-edited together in chronological order and dubbed in English.
- VerbindungenEdited into Spisok korabley (2008)
I was trying to explain one of the most unique things about the film (and its 2nd part, The New Land) to my brother but I was having a hard time finding the words. Finally, "transfixed" was what I was looking for. The film is long but it held me "transfixed" with nearly every scene. The shots are long. The dialog is often sparse. The soundtrack is almost non-existent. Rather, the director holds one nearly spellbound by "showing" rather "telling" the story. The imagery and expressions on the actors' faces and their silent actions relate most of what makes this film so powerful.
As the viewer, you feel almost like you are right there with the characters, sharing the moments along side them. One becomes immersed in what is happening as if you are there. The powerful empathy that the film manages to generate within the viewer is really quite amazing given the lack (or maybe due to the lack) of modern cinematic styles and techniques.
Another thing about this film that is incredibly impressive is that the viewer really gets a sense of how someone migrating from Sweden at the time would see things and think. The perspective is fresh and unapologetically authentic. Unlike many films set in the past, it does not "dumb-down" any aspect by modernizing or "updating" anything to make it easier for a modern audience to relate to (language, mannerisms, music, etc.). One of my biggest peeves about modern films set in the past is that, other than the wardrobe, everything else is modern... modern language, modern manners, modern politics/norms, modern music (electric guitar in the soundtrack of a "western" film?). It is also refreshingly unpolluted by modern-day political correctness.
This is really a fantastic work of art that in many ways, gets better with time as it is so accurate and truthful to the situation and period. The 2nd part, "The New Land" is equally as fantastic. It is not a "sequel" per se, but rather the filmmaker realized he would need several hours to accurately portray the story set out in the book and one movie would be too long. So, it was essentially shot as one long movie but released in two parts in back-to-back years.
This film really provides the viewer with an authentic sense of the times and the situations many emigrants went through in the mid-19th century. One of the best film discoveries I've made in a long time. Highly recommended.
- MovieGuyFunTime
- 2. Apr. 2021
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- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 1.156.554 $