Word: troell
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...Emigrants, the first half of his film epic on the immigrant experience, Swedish director Jan Troell celebrated and plumbed this myth, seeking its depths in the varying responses of a small band of Scandinavian peasants to the enormity of their voyage to America. With painstaking care and Iyric skill, Troell traced the slow dissolution of the family's way of life in rural Sweden, the unrelenting sequence of deaths, injuries, famines and persecutions by which they came to know that their life there could...
PICKING UP ENERGY as his characters, Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann as Karl-Oscar and Kristina Neilson, took life, Troell detailed the tough choices and sacrifices, the illnesses and griefs that propelled the group to the Promised Land. Despite the ambivalent picture he painted of the passage into Canaan. of the hostile reaction these immigrants of the mid-1840s encountered in America, Troell brought The Emigrants to a climactic affirmation as Karl-Oscar blazed the boundaries of his new farm by the shores of a Minnesota lake...
Were it not for studio cuts, The Emigrants might have been a perfect film. In tracing a journey of Swedish farmers to Minnesota in the 1840's writer-director photographer Jan Troell has not only dramatized what the idea of American meant for those who dared test their limits a against it but the social and economic processes by which an ethnic group of disparate individuals slowly became a community. And with his camera alone, Troell can express usually well the joy his characters found in nature and the hardships they suffered when their native land wouldn't work...
...Troell - Sweden...
...would undoubtedly astonish Jan Troell, the director of The Emigrants, to learn that he has made the most political film of the year. On the surface the movie is an epic celebration of 19th century Swedish immigration to the promised country. But within its rich textures is an oddly lucid explanation of some current American phenomena-among them the ethnic clashes in Newark and Canarsie-and for the landslide re-election of Richard Nixon...