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 ...

Hailed by Variety as “a superb historical drama about the Far-Right’s threatto democracy, the movie “Quisling: The Final Days” helmed by Norway’s top filmmaker Erik Poppe, impressed audiences at the ...

Karl Oskar is a poor farmer in Småland in the mid-1800s, and when the harvest fails and hunger rages, he decides to travel to the promised land of America together with his wife Kristina and their ...

Erik Poppe’s historical drama “The Emigrants” scored the top Andreas Award at the 50th Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund. Produced by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, it is distributed by SF ...

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons ...

The 77-year-old Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell is best known in the U.S. for his pair of 1970s epics The Emigrants and The New Land, which starred Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. His latest film is Maria ...

Krystian Lupa’s latest work had its premiere in Paris after an earlier attempt collapsed. The delay would have been a good time to rethink the four-and-a-half-hour show. By Laura Cappelle The critic ...