The Emigrants 1971  PG, 151 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern, Aina Alfredsson, Allan Edwall, Hans Alfredson, Halvar Bjork, Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Ulla Smidje, Eva-Lena Zetterlund, Gustaf Faringborg, Ake Fridell, Agneta Prytz
This is an excellent story of the trials and tribulations of Swedish emigrants Kristina and Karl-Oskar (Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow). After one of their children starves to death, they leave their famine-ravaged native home in Sweden and come to America in the 1850s, searching for a better life. They travel by steamer, train, and on foot with other emigrants to find a new home on the fertile land of Minnesota. The film received Academy Award nominations as Best Foreign Film, Picture, Actress (Ullmann), Director, and Writing.
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For Better, for Worse 1974  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Zandy's Bride
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Bottoms, Joe Santos, Frank Cady, Bob Simpson, Vivian Gordon
Zandy Allan (Gene Hackman) orders Hannah Lund (Liv Ullmann) as his mail-order bride. After abusing her, he learns that there are true feelings between them and he exerts compassion instead of cruelty. A total waste of two great actors.
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Hamsun 1996  N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Max von Sydow, Ghita Norby, Jesper Christensen, Anette Hoff, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Eva von Hanno, Gard B. Eidsvold, Asa Soderling, Eindride Eidsvold, Edgar Selge
This is the story of Norway's 1920 Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow) who sympathized with–even welcomed–the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II.
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Hurricane 1979 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
aka: Forbidden Paradise
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Timothy Bottoms, James Keach, Dayton Ka'ne, Roo, Nancy Hall Rutgers, Manu Tupou, John Taea, Bernadette Sarcione, Richard Sarcione, Nick Rutgers
This story relates the tale of young Charlotte Bruckner (Mia Farrow) who visits her Navy sea captain father Capt. Bruckner (Jason Robards) on the island of Bora Bora. While visiting, Charlotte falls for Samoan chief Matangi (Dayton Ka'ne), and they enter into an affair in the midst of a coming hurricane. Disaster strikes, and these lovers are not destined to live happily ever after.
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The New Land 1972 PG, 157 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Hans Alfredson, Halvar Bjork, Allan Edwall, Per Oscarsson, Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Agneta Prytz, Tom C. Fouts, Peter Lindgren, Oscar Ljung, Karin Nordstrom, Larry Clementson
This sequel to "The Emigrants" follows in the excellent tradition as it chronicles the Minnesota phase of the Swedish emigrants Kristina and Karl-Oskar (Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow). While settling into their new home, they must deal with the Sioux tribes and their bloody uprising. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.
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| 1. The Emigrants (1971)
2. Flight of the Eagle (1982)
3. For Better, for Worse (1974)
aka: Zandy's Bride
4. Hamsun (1996)
5. Hurricane (1979)
aka: Forbidden Paradise
6. The New Land (1972)
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