The Emigrants
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Short description
In the mid-nineteenth century, Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson marry and try to make a living from a small, poor piece of land in Småland, in southern Sweden. Bad harvests and hunger make survival increasingly difficult, and religious pressure drives some of their neighbours to consider leaving as well. The family decides to sell everything and travel to the United States, joined by others with their own reasons for going. The journey takes them across the ocean and overland before they reach Minnesota.
The Emigrants is a Swedish drama directed by Jan Troell, who wrote the screenplay with producer Bengt Forslund. Max von Sydow plays Karl Oskar and Liv Ullmann plays Kristina, with Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern, Aina Alfredsson and Allan Edwall among the twenty-nine credited cast members. It runs 191 minutes and was made for about two million dollars. The film is the first part of an adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg's emigrant novels and was followed by a second instalment.
On IMDb it holds 8 out of 10 from around 8,200 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.4 from roughly 130 votes. A critics' rating of 9 out of 10 from seventeen reviews places it above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of a scene near the end of the film, when Carl, played by Max von Sydow (1929-2020), goes in search of a new settlement, the director and cinematographer Jan Troell forgot to call "Cut!", and the actor disappeared into the distance waiting for the director's command, and no one even noticed until lunchtime.
- Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was a big fan of the film. He even called Troell to tell him so, but Troell took it as a prank and hung up (this happened repeatedly when Kubrick called someone to express his admiration). Kubrick especially liked the costumes, and he even brought costume designer Ulla-Britt Söderlund (1943-1985, who worked on this film) in to assist Milena Canonero when costumes from the 18th century were needed for the 1975 drama "Barry Lyndon."
- Jan Troell and screenwriter Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) argued about whether the actors should speak with an accent. Troell insisted that they speak with a Småland accent (Småland is a historical province in southern Sweden, where the film is set), while Moberg did not want any dialect to be heard in the film at all. As a result of a compromise, the characters played by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann speak with an accent, while all the others – for example, the characters played by Eddie Axberg and Pierre Lindstedt – speak with a very faint accent.
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