The Promised Land

The Promised Land

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Release Date

10/5/2023

Runtime

127 mins

Overview

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...?

Status

Released

Original Language

Danish

Budget

$8,500,000

Revenue

$2,119,043

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A grim, propulsive clash of wills set against an unforgiving landscape, where one man's desperate ambition to prove himself collides brutally with entrenched power and the indifference of the land itself.

Mood

DefiantBleakTenseMournful

Themes

AmbitionColonialismClassPowerRedemption

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrastPainterly

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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