Mads Mikkelsen

Amanda Collin

Simon Bennebjerg

Kristine Kujath Thorp

Gustav Lindh

Jacob Ulrik Lohmann

Morten Hee Andersen

Magnus Krepper

Søren Malling

Morten Burian

Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Morten Buus

Olaf Højgaard

Melina Hagberg

Felix Kramer

Laura Bilgrau Eskild-Jensen

Anna Filippa Hjarne

Jiří Konvalinka

Martin Feifel

Lasse Steen Jensen

Nanna Finding Koppel

Michael Brostrup

Joen Højerslev

Patricie Šlaufová

Jan Jankovský

Josef Berousek

Ivo Hanel

Kristián Černík

Lise Risom Olsen

Nikol Kouklová

Hans Christian Lundgren

Arved Friese

Zdenek Brüna

Zdeněk Dvořáček

Martin Navrátil

Adam Pengsawang

Tomáš Tobola

Karel Heřmánek

Finn Nielsen

Nikolaj Arcel

Louise Vesth

Anders Thomas Jensen

Rasmus Videbæk

Dan Romer

Claus Lynge

Hans Christian Kock

Sabine Schumann

Anders Huulgaard

Tanja Grunwald

Mouns Overgaard

Alexander Schepelern

Tine Mikkelsen

Ida Harder

Hannibal Lang

Line Plougsbæk

Nina Strøm

Adrian Baumeister

Henry Uhl

Johannes Krause

Thomas Køhler

Martin Langenbach

Jean-Marie Gilles

Charlotte Buch

Fabian Gasmia

Katja Lebedjewa

Lizette Jonjic

Jessica Balac

Marianne Jul Hansen

Kristina Kornum

Pavel Muller

Klaus Spinnler

Jesper Clausen

Seth Turner

Frantisek Weber

Kathrin Buhlan

Claudia Börsch

Manuela Halligan

Malene Klitte Handberg

Vibeke Henningsen

Charlotte Hertz

Tereza Hrdličková

Per Kapper

Sofia Korreborg

Kitty Kratschke

Charlotte Laustsen

Ivana Němcová

Růžena Novotná

Radek Petr

Matylda Petrova

Kristin Rasch

Sylke Schneider

Rebekka Schwark

David Šesták

Nikola Skučková

Pauline Späte

Sofie Overgaard Stenholt

Markéta Turečková

Kirsten Zäschke

Sofia Brandt

Anja Søgaard Christiansen

Tine Clasen

Pavlína Farkásová

Katharina Gapski

Anne Falkesgaard Hansen

Kathrin Krückeberg

Agnes Parkrud

Martina Pálková

Tilde Wolffbrandt

Adam Hashemi

Filip Holec

Jan Menšík

Kristýna Rousková

Jakub Strangmüller

Brian Westfall

Andrea Östlund

Rasmus Balslev-Olesen

Christine Bechameil

Farid Beyzai

Zuzana Bošková

Jacob Wirth Carlsen

Lucie Charles

Thomas Frisch

Tereza Honsova

Silja Cohn Jeppesen

Henning Jördens

Jan Kodera

Titus Kunze

Filip Langenberger

Janna Lundius

Ulla Malmros

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The Promised Land

based on novel or book

murder

priest

colonisation

soldier

king

18th century

farming

danish

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Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/the-promised-land-venice-film-festival-review-mads-mikkelsen-shines-once-again/

"The Promised Land is a profound character study of how personal ambitions and desires inevitably will fail without love, compassion, and everything else that makes us human.

Accompanied by somber cinematography and an atmospheric score, the cast delivers outstanding performances, especially Mads Mikkelsen who utilizes all his experience to drive the story with a magnetic display.

Heavy, predictable, and somewhat repetitive at times, but totally worth the ticket."

Rating: B+

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Mads Mikkelsen is in his element here as the determined pioneer Ludvig Kahlen. He has been a soldier in the Danish army and has now set his heart on cultivating some salty heathland on a barren Jutland. Fortunately for him, King Frederik V is keen to see this land settled and become more productive, so he is encouraged to go and farm there. His arrival ruffles the feathers of local grandee Frederik De Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg) who considers the land to be his, and who makes it clear that he will make life awkward for his new neighbour. Relations are not helped when he takes in a pair of runaway servants - "Ann Barbara" (Amanda Collin) and husband "Johannes" (Morten Hee Andersen) and then falls for the man's aristocratic cousin Edel Helene (Kristine Kujath Thorp) to whom De Schinkel wishes to be married - cementing his place amongst a somewhat sceptical nobility. With the pot simmering along nicely now, things start to go missing. There's a pilferer about. Kahlen quickly discovers that it's a young girl who lives with the local Romany population and pretty quickly "Anmai Mus" (Melina Hagberg) is an extra mouth for them to feed. De Schinkel isn't averse to some underhand methods to thwart the would-be farmer and so resorts to increasingly violent, cruel, even murderous tactics that make the tasks of staying within the law and of growing potatoes almost impossible - but he doesn't quite appreciate the guile and ingenuity of Kahlen. This is a story of perseverance and determination, it's also a story of love and of acceptance. Indeed, for just about everyone here the goal is to find some roots, a place to call home, a family, maybe even an identity. There evolves a good chemistry between Mikkelsen, Collin and the convincing young Hagberg and Bennebjerg - well he gives the distinct impression that he doesn't come from the deepest of gene pools really quite effectively. It is prone to the odd meander at times, especially as it gets up an head of steam, but once in full flow this is quite a gripping adventure that marries the bleak and the optimistic whilst allowing Mikkelsen to do what he does best. Well worth watch.

I do love me a Mads Mikkelsen movie. 'The Promised Land' is a cracker!

The two hour run time whizzes by, you can kinda guess where the (great) story is heading but at no point was that a hindrance to my enjoyment. The cinematography is splendid, as are the locations, costumes and basically every other element really. Simon Bennebjerg shows plenty of acting knack as (De) Schinkel. Others to impress are Melina Hagberg and Amanda Collin, though the whole cast produce fine displays.

Mikkelsen himself puts in a performance of quality, very much the glue that holds everything together - as one would anticipate. He suits this sorta role to the absolute tee. This is up the top of my ranking of his filmography thus far, I'd in fact only rank it lower than 'A Royal Affair', 'Riders of Justice' and 'The Green Butchers'.

Harvest Clip [Subtitled]

Official Trailer [Subtitled]

TIFF 2023 - Q&A with Nikolaj Arcel, Amanda Collin & Louise Vesth

Q&A - AFI FEST 2023

The Promised Land( 2023)

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A review by Manuel São Bento

Written by Manuel São Bento on Tue Sep 05 2023

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