Sweden
, 160 min
Shown in 1973
CREDITS
- dir
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Jan Troell
- prod
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Bengt Forslund
- scr
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Bengt Gorslund, Jan Troell
- cam
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Jan Troell
- cast
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Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt, Per Oscarsson, Monica Zetterlund
- prod co
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Svensk Filmindustri
- source
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Warner Brothers
OTHER
A continuing story of The Emigrants, which premiered in the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1972, The New Land completes director Jan Troell’s two-film interpretation of the novels of Vilhelm Moberg. Fleeing the difficulties of life in their native Sweden, the emigrants arrived in Minnesota in the spring of 1852. In this new land, Karl and Kristina Oskar, brilliantly played by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman, are plagued with hardship as they struggle to put down roots in this rugged wilderness, the America that was still a dream. Encompassing the California Gold Rush, the Sioux uprising and the Civil War, this second installment of the epic of the Swedish pioneers more than fulfills the promise of its predecessor.
FACTOID #384
Henry Fonda attended the SFIFF in 1967 to receive a tribute for his work in classics like The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men. Daughter Jane showed up in 1975 for a tribute of her own. And her brother Peter made two Festival appearances, one as a guest in 1963 and another to accompany the film Nadja (in which he gleefully portrayed Dr. Van Helsing) in 1995.
