The Promised Land

(2023)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 632 votes

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Year: 2023

Runtime: 127 мин

Country: Denmark, Germany

Director: Николай Арсель

Cast: Мадс Миккельсен, Аманда Коллин, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh, Jacob Lohmann, Morten Hee Andersen, Магнус Креппер, Søren Malling, Morten Burian

Plot

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...?

The poor soldier Ludvig Kahlen arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king's call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honor himself. But Kahlen quickly makes an enemy. The merciless landowner, Frederik De Schinkel, who is sole ruler of the area, believes that the wealth belongs to him and not the king. When De Schinkel's serf runs away with his wife Ann Barbara and seeks refuge with Kahlen, the landowner does everything to drive Kahlen away and at the same time exact a cruel revenge. Kahlen does not bow, but stubbornly takes up the unequal battle and now risks both his life, but also the bond with the small, troubled family that has arisen around him on the heath.