Product Details

• Actors: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall
• Directors: Jan Troell
• Writers: Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund, Vilhelm Moberg
• Producers: Art L. Malmsten, Bengt Forslund, Lotti Ekberg, Suzanne Dausereau
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, Swedish
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 7, 1994
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303039596
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,024 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A pioneer couple struggles to settle in Minnesota and start a new life.

Customer Reviews

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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars who wants to be a pioneer?, March 11, 2000

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Gary K. (Anchorage, Alaska) - See all my reviews

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

Well worth a million bucks (or star rating) and is the richest realization of pioneer experience ever put to film. The pacing, the cinematography, the patient character development or rather continuation of character unfolding that began with the prequel 'the emmigrants', is an enriching study of human personality in its most basic social and natural settings, ie. real human beings tied to the land and to each other out of fundamental necessity. Every detail of the journey west is bathed in vivid realism. The difficulties of travel and communication continue in this new land until homes are built and lives and cultural ties re-established to replace ones left behind. The enduring marital bond between Max Von Sydow and Liv Ulman's characters,(Oscars aren't good enough) the desire for that better life which drew them to the paradise of Minnesota where the miseries of Indians who must share land that was once their own are soon realized. The youthful will to explore and prosper that cannot be suppressed in Max's younger brother whose artistic temperment misfits him for farm life and drives him to the gold of California and his destiny is one of the most stark and poetic depictions of a sensitive life in the wild west ever portrayed. If you want to know what it was like to have been there- watch this film. Anyone with a shred of curiousity or empathetic appetite for the struggles and accomplishments of our ancestors will be well satisfied with this rare feast of pioneer life. I can only hope the eventual transfer to DVD will do justice to the cinematographic beauty this profound film possesses and deserves.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, June 13, 2004

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Marilyn B. Glabicki "bird lady" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Land [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If any of your ancestors came from any part of Europe by sea, you have to see this. Movie is not new, but is a classic. Was recommended to me by my Norwegian cousins even tho it's about Swedes. You DO NOT notice the dubbed English, believe me. And you want to watch if again and again because movie really captures what the emmigrants went through, both in the old country and here. Definitely a "to own" movie for anyone that likes history and genealogy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historical and entertaining, June 30, 2003

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William Soderlund (Saint Peter, MN United States) - See all my reviews

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

This is one great movie. I would recommend it to anyone interested in American or Swedish/scandinavian history.