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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its Swedish father-and-son immigrants endure hard rural labor in Denmark, with the same patient attention to dignity, deprivation, family bonds, and the uncertain promise of a new country.
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Why this pick
Olmi’s intimate, unhurried portrait of peasant families shares Troell’s tactile naturalism, seasonal rhythms, spiritual gravity, and deep feeling for how poverty shapes everyday choices.
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Why this pick
A harsh Scandinavian settlement drama driven by endurance against land, class, and weather; it echoes The Emigrants’ physical realism and belief that a home must be painfully made.
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Why this pick
Another family’s forced departure becomes a humane, clear-eyed odyssey through economic hardship. It shares The Emigrants’ compassion for ordinary people facing an unforgiving promise of renewal.
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Why this pick
Though more lyrical, it shares the immersive turn-of-the-century rural world, fragile family unit, and majestic yet indifferent natural landscape that give The Emigrants its emotional force.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1844 in the Swedish province of Småland, the Nilsson family lives in Lessebo Municipality, on a small farm in the woods at Korpamoen. The eldest son, Karl Oskar, inherits the farm from his father Nils, after meeting a young girl named Kristina Johansdotter, who becomes his bride. She moves to Korpamoen to live with him and his parents. In the following years, Karl Oskar and Kristina start a family, starting with a daughter, Anna, followed by Johan, Marta and Harald. The family struggles with poor weather and harvests and hunger. Karl Oskar's rebellious younger brother Robert first comes across the idea of emigrating to America, tired of being treated poorly as a farmhand. He first asks his friend Arvid, another farmhand at Nybacken, to come along with him. Arvid eagerly agrees, but the pair's hopes are dashed when they realize they do not have the money needed for their passage. Robert confronts Karl Oskar about selling his share of the farm in order to afford the passage, only to find out that Karl Oskar himself had been considering the idea of moving his family to the United States. Despite the offerings of a better life, Kristina adamantly rejects the notion, not wanting to leave her homeland as well as being fearful of risking the lives of their four young children on the ocean.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Karl Oskar
Jonas Petter
Anders Månsson
Kapten Lorentz
Arvid
Kristina
Danjel
Robert Nilsson
