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Plot. In 1755, Captain Ludvig Kahlen, an impoverished Danish officer of humble birth, retires after 25 years of service in the German Army with a measly pension. He obtains permission from the Royal Danish Court to build a property on the barren Jutland moorland for land cultivation.
The Promised Land: Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. With Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Melina Hagberg. The story of Danish soldier and explorer Ludvig Kahlen, who explored and cultivated Denmark's wild Jutland, which now comprises the vast majority of the country, in the mid-18th century.
- (22K)
- Action, Biography, Drama
- Nikolaj Arcel
- 2023-10-05
Retired captain Ludvig Kahlen fights to settle on and cultivate an uninhabitable heathland on the remote Jutland peninsula in the name of the king.
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) -- a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow.
- (129)
- Nikolaj Arcel
- R
- Mads Mikkelsen
THE PROMISED LAND. Mads Mikkelsen brings his seemingly effortless charisma and intensity to bear in this engrossing historical drama which reunites him with director Nikolaj Arcel, with whom he worked on 2012’s A Royal Affair. Mikkelsen portrays the real life figure of Captain Ludvig.
The Promised Land is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel and written by Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen. Based on the 2020 book The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen, the film is a joint Danish-German-Swedish co-production starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin and Simon Bennebjerg, and with Kristine Kujath Thorp ...
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The Promised Land (Danish: Bastarden, Template:Lit) is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel and written by Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen.
