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...Seventh Seal. Bergman's medieval allegory of life and death. Stars Max von Sydow...
...usually well the joy his characters found in nature and the hardships they suffered when their native land wouldn't work for them: the deprivations of the emigrants' ship, and the bounty of their new country. Of course, Troell placed two fine actors in his lead roles--May son Sydow and Liv Ullman...
...land is harsh, the people poor and desperate. In the early 1850s a group of Swedes from the province of Smaland pack their few belongings and emigrate to America in hope of a better life. There, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) stakes out a fine farm for himself, his wife (Liv Ullman) and family in the Minnesota woods...
There is a distant quality about The Emigrants, a kind of intangible emotional reserve. The cast is superb; there are surely no better film actors in the world than Von Sydow and Ullman. But the director cannot make us feel the desperation and the destinies of his characters. Elia Kazan's America, America was not so elaborate or well sustained as The Emigrants, but Kazan's film had the impact of personal experience. The Emigrants has the accumulation of exquisite detail and close observation; it lacks intensity...
...Playhouse Biography: "A Search for Strindberg." Max Von Sydow plays the famous Swedish playwright. 7:30 p.m., March 25, Chan...