#796: TROELL, Jan: The Emigrants (1971)
TROELL, Jan (Sweden)
The Emigrants [1971]
Spine #796
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann give remarkably authentic performances as Karl Oskar and Kristina, a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey. The precise, minute detail with which Troell depicts their story — which is also that of countless other people who sought better lives across the Atlantic — is a wonder to behold. Engrossing at every step of the way, the duo of The Emigrants and The New Land makes for perhaps the greatest screen drama about the settling of America.
191 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
in Swedish
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Director/Writers
From a novel by Vilhelm Moberg.
Screenplay by Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund.
Troell was 40 when he directed The Emigrants.
Other Troell films in the Collection:
#766: Here Is Your Life (1966)
#797: The New Land (1972)
#520: Everlasting Moments (2008)
The Film
Other Troell films in the Collection:
#766: Here Is Your Life (1966)
#797: The New Land (1972)
#520: Everlasting Moments (2008)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Terrence Rafferty.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
Between film scholar Peter Cowie and director Troell.
Interview
With actor Ullmann.
To Paint with Pictures
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Terrence Rafferty.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
Between film scholar Peter Cowie and director Troell.
Interview
With actor Ullmann.
To Paint with Pictures
An hour-long documentary from 2005 on the making of the films, featuring archival footage as well as interviews with Troell, Ullmann, producer and coscreenwriter Forslund, actor Axberg, and composer Georg Oddner.
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