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Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann

This film continues from where Utvandrarna (1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. The winters and summers are more extreme than in the Old World. But th...( read more  read more... )e immigrants are rewarded for their hard work. They now live a better life than they did in Sweden. Bad times also come, however. The civil war starts and the Sioux Indians make a bloody uprising against the white settlers. Karl-Oskar's family survives all these. His brother, Robert, decides to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. He never reaches California but acquires some fortune from his boss who dies of yellow fever on the way to the gold fields. An immigrant Swede dupes him of this fortune. Robert returns to his brother where he dies from a disease contracted on the trip. Kristina, whose thoughts never leave Sweden, has several more births and gets pregnant again against the advice of her doctor. This last pregnancy kills her. The children grow up and take over the farm. Karl-Oskar becomes old and lonely. He spends his last days dreaming of his youth in the Old World.

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PG, 204 min.

Directed by: Jan Troell

Release Date: February 26, 1972

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  • john13850
    April 6, 2009
    john13850
    It's criminal that the uncut version hasn't been released in the US. Don't judge the movie by the shortened US version.
  • hypathio7
    October 23, 2008
    hypathio7
    want to see this because it won best foreign-language film at the golden globes and was nominated for best foreign film at the oscars and by NBR
  • hugonar
    October 9, 2007
    hugonar
    We were forced to see this in high school.

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