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The Emigrants

Utvandrarna

1971

In the mid-19th century, a poor Swedish farm family, ground down by hardship and religious persecution, sells everything and undertakes the grueling ocean voyage to start over in America. Jan Troell's sweeping, intimate epic of emigration.

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