The Emigrants / The New Land Blu-ray

'The Emigrants' / 'The New Land' Director: Jan Troell (1971 / 1972) Criterion Collection 2-Disc Blu-ray | HD restorations | Swedish w/ English subtitles

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world.

Movie legends Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann give remarkably authentic performances as Karl Oskar and Kristina, a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey. 

Special features:
- New introduction by theater and film critic John Simon
- New conversation between film scholar Peter Cowie and director Jan Troell
- New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
- To Paint with Pictures, an hour-long documentary from 2005 on the making of the films, featuring archival footage as well as interviews with Troell, Ullmann, producer and coscreenwriter Bengt Forslund, actor Eddie Axberg, and composer Georg Oddner
- Essay by critic Terrence Rafferty