Fresh
It's very slow, subtly acted, and if you can last the course, quite moving
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
The Emigrants
a new land...a new hope...a new dream
1971 · 3h 11m · PG
Drama, History
Directed by
Jan Troell
Overview
A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Emigrants is a stately, pictorially romantic chronicle of the lives of a small group of peasants for whom existence at home becomes so tenuous that emigration seems the only solution.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
The acclaim for this 1971 151-minute revisionist epic on the settlement of America still mystifies me.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Infinitely absorbing and moving.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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