The Promised Land(Movie, 2023)

Name: The Promised Land
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2023
Duration: T02:7:00
Rating: 3.8

Original title: "Bastarden" (Danish/DA)

2h 7min | Genres: History, Drama

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

The Promised Land (Danish: Bastarden, lit. 'The bastard') is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel and written by Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin and Simon Bennebjerg, and with Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh, Jakob Lohmann, Morten Hee Andersen, Magnus Krepper and Felix Kramer in supporting roles, the film is based on the 2020 book The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen, and is a joint Danish-German-Swedish co-production. The Promised Land had its world premiere on 31 August 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival where it competed for the Golden Lion. It was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Internationa... ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Promised Land

European Film Award for Best Cinematographer European Film Award for Best Costume Designer European Film Award for Best Actor Robert Award for Best Danish Film Fipresci Award Best Nordic Film Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film Bodil Award for Best Danish Film nominated for: International Submission To The Academy Awards

About The Promised Land

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...?

Trailer for The Promised Land + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Official Trailer [Subtitled](Trailer, 2:12)

Additional Information

Official websites:

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Production countries: Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Based on: "The Captain and Ann Barbara" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Zentropa International Berlin, Plaion Pictures

Original language: Danish (DA)

Spoken languages: Danish (DA), German (DE)

Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/02/2024 (World premiere: 10/05/2023)

Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Gustav Lindh, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Søren Malling, Magnus Krepper, Jakob Lohmann, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Morten Hee Andersen, Morten Burian, Olaf Højgaard, Felix Kramer

Director: Nikolaj Arcel

Producer: Louise Vesth

Screenwriter: Nikolaj Arcel, Anders Thomas Jensen

Film Editor: Olivier Bugge Coutté

Director of Photography: Rasmus Videbæk

Composer: Dan Romer

Costume designer: Kicki Ilander

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"King's Land"

"杂种"

"The Bastard"

Keywords: history, danish, 18th century, soldier, king, danish history, colonisation, historical drama, based on novel or book, 1750s

Budget: 8,500,000 USD

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The Promised Land(Movie, 2023)

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