The Great Migration

Content introduction: In the mid-19th century, in a small rural community in Smaland in southern Sweden lived a young couple, Christina and Karl Oskar. They eked out a living on a small patch of barren land. Things were hard, people encountered bad weather, harvests dropped sharply, and everything was desolate. The couple's first child died from starvation and stolen food. This famine, combined with the death of her child, made the mother accept her father's decision to immigrate to the United States. They were accompanied by another family fleeing religious persecution and a man fleeing an evil wife, among others. The remainder of the film follows their arduous journey on a rocking ship across the Atlantic and inland, eventually arriving in what is now Minnesota. The entire migration took 10 weeks. In Minnesota, those immigrants who escaped death will start their new life in this new world... This film is an epic film about Nordic immigrants to the United States. The film is full of long shots and spectacular natural scenes. The shadow of this film can be seen in "Pell the Conqueror". Starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.