The Promised Land (2023)

Name: The Promised Land
Released: 2023
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh

• Movies, Action, Drama, History

• 127 min

7.8

Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel
Casting: 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
Countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Premiere: 2023-10-05
Status: Released

Tags: based on novel or book, murder, priest, colonisation, soldier, king, 18th century, farming, danish, danish history, ex military, historical drama, shocking, aggressive, hopeless, landowner, 1750s, history, furious, violence, tense, depressing, antagonistic, pessimistic

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?