The New Land (Nybyggarna) (1972)

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Directed by

Jan Troell

Starring (View all)

Max von Sydow
Karl Oskar

Liv Ullmann
Kristina

Eddie Axberg
Robert

Pierre Lindstedt
Arvid

Allan Edwall
Danjel

Monica Zetterlund
Ulrika

Hans Alfredson
Jonas Petter

Agneta Prytz
Fina-Kajsa

Written by

Vilhelm Moberg
(novel)

Jan Troell
(screenplay)

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Description: This film continues from where Utvandrarna (1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. The winters and summers are more extreme than in the Old World. But the immigrants are rewarded for their hard work. They now live a better life than they did in Sweden. Bad times also come, however. The civil war starts and the Sioux Indians make a bloody uprising against the white settlers. Karl-Oskar's family survives all these. His brother, Robert, decides to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. He never reaches California but acquires some fortune from his boss who dies of yellow fe ... (more)

Release date: 26 February 1972

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"Like 1971’s The Emigrants before it, Jan Troell’s The New Land is intensely focused on the brutal material nature of rural life in the mid-19th century, but this de facto sequel breaks from the straightforward linearity of its predecessor’s narrative. With its central couple, Karl-Oscar (Max von Sydow) and Kristina (Liv Ullmann), now firmly grounded in the new world, expressionistic, nostalgia-laden flashbacks of their former life back in Sweden perceptively color their current struggle to"