A family of farmers leaves famine-striken 19th-century Sweden for America, and builds a homestead in... (Learn more)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg (View All)
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Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
Director/writer Jan Troell's expansive saga deals with the Larsen family, who during the 19th century famine in Sweden emigrate to the more fertile fields of Minnesota. With painstaking detail, the director follows the Larsens as they make the perilous (and, to some of their fellow immigrants, fatal) journey by foot, steamer, train, and paddle boat. The film, which originally ran 190 minutes but was pared down to 150 by its director for American consumption, earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Foreign Language Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, and Best Actress (Liv Ullmann). The Emigrants was followed by a sequel, Nybyggarna ("The New Land"); both films have been edited together for TV release under the title The Emigrant Saga. The subsequent American TV series The New Land (1974) starred Bonnie Bedelia in the role created in The Emigrants by Liv Ullmann, and Scott Thomas in the patriarch role originated by Max von Sydow. In 1991, Sven Nykvist directed a "prequel" to The Emigrants titled The Ox. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
11/30/71
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
148 mins. (FSLC)
Locations
- Sweden, Minnesota
Language
- Swedish
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1972 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film - Foreign Language award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 1971 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
