Gustaf Skarsgård
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This film adapts the first two of the four novels (The Emigrants (1949) and Unto a Good Land (1952)), which depict the hardships the emigrants experience in Sweden and on their journey to America. The Emigrants won international acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards .
- $1.6 million
- Erik Nordgren
- Bengt Forslund
The Emigrants is the collective name of a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg. Written in the mid-twentieth century, they explore the large Swedish emigration to the United States that started about a century before.
- 1780 (in total, Swedish edition)
- Vilhelm Moberg
- 1949, 1952, 1956, 1959
- Bonniers (Swedish edition)
Dec 25, 2021 · A historical film based on the book by Vilhelm Moberg about a family's journey from Sweden to America in the 1850s. Starring Gustaf Skarsgård, Sofia Helin and Liv Ullmann, directed by Erik Poppe.
- (2.2K)
- Drama, History
- Erik Poppe
- 2021-12-25
It is the first of his four-novel series entitled The Emigrants. In these he explores the causes and process of the major Swedish emigration to the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, and their settling in such frontier areas as the Minnesota Territory.
- 444 (Swedish edition)
- Vilhelm Moberg
- 1949
- Bonniers (Swedish edition)
Jul 26, 2022 · Tue 26 Jul 2022 04.00 EDT. T his epic-scale adaptation of a series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg deserves its 148-minute running time, giving the plot enough space to cover a wide and deep tale of a...
The Emigrants. Roger Ebert January 15, 1973. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “The Emigrants” isn’t the kind of movie we used to be shown in grade school, a movie all about the tired and huddled masses and Samuel Gompers and melting pots.
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The Emigrants is the collective name of a four novel suite by the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg. The novel-series describes the long and strenuous journey for a group of people in Småland, Sweden, as they emigrate to Minnesota, United States, where they settle during the Swedish emigration to North America around the 1850s. Series also known as:
