127 mins |
Rated
R16 (Violence, cruelty, offensive language & sex scenes)
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Gustav Lindh, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Magnus Krepper, Amanda Collin
The Promised Land is a joint Danish-German-Swedish co-production, an epic historical drama film based on the 2020 book The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen. In 1755, Captain Ludvig Kahlen, an impoverished war hero, arrives on the barren Jutland heath and sets out to tame the vast uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. A merciless landowner who is sole ruler of the area, believes that the heath belongs to him and does everything to drive Kahlen away and at the same time exact a cruel revenge.
Evocative ◦ Historic ◦ Drama
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The Promised Land is a joint Danish-German-Swedish co-production, an epic historical drama film based on the 2020 book The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen. In 1755, Captain Ludvig Kahlen, an impoverished war hero, arrives on the barren Jutland heath and sets out to tame the vast uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. A merciless landowner who is sole ruler of the area, believes that the heath belongs to him and does everything to drive Kahlen away and at the same time exact a cruel revenge.
Evocative ◦ Historic ◦ Drama