THE NEW LAND

Nybyggarna – Swedish title

La nueve tierra – Argentinian title

Nybyggerne – Danish title

Raivaajat – Finnish title

Le nouveau monde – French title

Das neue Land – German title

Új haza – Hungarian title

La nuova terra – Italian title

Osadnicy – Polish title

La nueve tierra – Spanish title

The Settlers – English title

Unto a Good Land – English title

The New Land – English title

A 1972 Swedish production [Svensk Filimidustri (Stockholm)]

Producer: Bengt Forslund

Director: Jan Troell

Story: “Nybyggarna” by Vilhelm Moberg (Carl Moberg)

Screenplay: Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell

Cinematography: Jan Troell [Eastmancolor]

Music: Bengt Ernyrd, Georg Oddner

Running time: 204 minutes

Cast:

Karl-Oskar – Max von Sydow

Kristina – Liv Ullmann

Robert Nilsson – Eddie Axberg (Jan Axberg)

Arvid – Pierre Lindstedt

Danjel – Allan Edwall (Johan Edwvall)

Ulrika – Monica Zetterlund (Monica Nilsson)

Jonas Petter – Hans Alfredson (Hasse Alfredon)

Fina Kajsa – Agneta Prytz (Ingrid Prytz)

Anders Månsson - Halvar Björk

Pastor Jackson – Tom C. Fouts (Thomas C. Fouts)

Samuel Nöjd – Peter Lindgren

Pastor Törner – Per Oscarsson

Petrus Olausson – Oscar Ljung

Judit Olausson – Karin Karin Nordström-Järegård (Karin Nordström)

Mr. Abbot – Larry Clementson

Mario Vallejos – Georg Anaya

Medical Officer – Ed Carpenter

Fredrik Mattson – Bengt Ottekil

Brothel mum – Elsa Hofgren

Whore – Margita Nyström

Sven – Hans Elfin

Ragnhild – Solveig Samzelius

Neighbor – Leif Sandberg

Karl-Oskar’s sons – Lasse Martinsson, Pelle Martinsson, Frans Oddner

Karl-Oskar’s daughters – Sara-Lena Arnoldsdotter, Yvonne Oppstedt, Linn Ullman

Elin – Eva-Lena Zetterlund

A sequel to ‘The Emigrants” (1971). Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing was not easy. The winters and summers are more extreme than in the Old World. But the immigrants are rewarded for their hard work. They now live a better life than they did in Sweden. Bad times also come, however. When the civil war starts the Sioux Indians make a bloody uprising against the white settlers. Karl-Oskar's family survives all of this. His brother, Robert, decides to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. He never reaches California but acquires a fortune from his boss who dies of yellow fever on the way to California but 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, gives birth to several more children 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.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWbQFs_8bOo