Product Details

• Actors: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern, Aina Alfredsson
• Directors: Jan Troell
• Writers: Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund, Vilhelm Moberg
• Producers: Bengt Forslund
• Format: Dubbed, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 7, 1994
• Run Time: 151 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303039553
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,665 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Item Name: The Emigrants; Studio: (null)

Product Description

The story of an English family emigrating to Austrailia.

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great movie RUINED by absurd dubbing!, December 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Emigrants [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Emigrants (and its sequal The New Land) and truly great films, and Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow contribute two of their best performances ever. HOWEVER, what lame-brain decided to release this in VHS in an English-dubbed version ONLY. If any movie requires its native language, it's this one. A huge part of the movie's strength is created by the sense of how "foreign" these new arrivals were in the U.S. The movie literally makes no sense when the family finally makes it to the U.S. and the "Americans" don't understand them--even though in the ridiculously dubbed version they are all speaking English! It's also a travesty that they didn't use Liv Ullmann to dub her own voice (if they HAD to dub it)--and we all know she speaks English quite well. If you have the choice, get the laser disc version. At least it is in Swedish and subtitled. Let's hope the DVD version will not repeate the mistake of the videotape!

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Am now looking for subtitled version......, December 13, 2001

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"paminoc" (WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Emigrants [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Oh wow.....to be honest, I disregarded the other reviews here because I wanted to see this movie again so badly. So, I convinced myself that it couldn't make THAT much difference dubbed instead of subtitles. Boy, was I wrong! It makes a very, very big difference in the authenticity of such wonderful movies.
Being of Swedish extraction from both my parents, I love to hear the beautiful lilt of the Swedish language in movies reproducing the lives of my ancestors. Though I cannot enjoy this version as I could a subtitled one, I will watch it until I can find the subtitled version for myself.

"The New Land"..... the same review applies....except that many years ago I bought the subtitled version for my father.....and I will borrow his rather than watch it dubbed!

Two beautiful movies; and they lose so much with English instead of Swedish words. As another reviewer said, it is just not believable to have a character speak fluent English through out a movie yet not be understood by other English speaking people!

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Criminal Mishandling, July 12, 2000

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"unhelpful" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Emigrants [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Jan Troell's The Emigrants was released in the U.S. with 40 minutes cut out of it, so it has never really been seen in the States, thanks to Warner Brothers, who were too stupid to grasp the film's significance or, indeed, audiences' abilities to enjoy this 3-hour+ masterpiece. To make matters worse, the only version available is an execrable dubbed version. Even if Von Sydow and Ullmann were there to post-dub their own voices, it is an affront to this magnificent film, and to anyone with brains and taste enough to enjoy it unaldulterated by studio sabotage.