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.
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Infinitely absorbing and moving.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
12 Jun 2006
rotten:
The acclaim for this 1971 151-minute revisionist epic on the settlement of America still mystifies me.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
24 Jun 2006
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,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
It's very slow, subtly acted, and if you can last the course, quite moving