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Jan 31, 2024 · "I have a deep-seated love for epic movies," effuses Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel. With The Promised Land, he has finally made a true historical epic of his own.
Feb 3, 2024 · Nikolaj Arcel speaks about his new historical epic with Mads Mikkelsen and why they left Hollywood to make it.
His latest film, the 18th-century epic The Promised Land, not only marked a return to European filmmaking, but also reunited the director with his A Royal Affair star, Mads Mikkelsen. The Promised Land follows a determined war veteran (played by Mikkelsen) who sets out to cultivate the Danish heath in the name of the king.
Jan 17, 2024 · Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel discuss behind-the-scenes of the Oscar shortlisted film, Comic-Con 2024, & reuniting with the Hannibal showrunner.
Sep 1, 2023 · Mads Mikkelsen reunites with his 'A Royal Affair' director Nikolaj Arcel on 'The Promised Land,' a historical epic that plays like a Nordic Western.
Jan 13, 2024 · Nikolaj Arcel talks reteaming with the actor for the Danish historical epic on a tight European budget. Amanda Collin in Magnolia Pictures’ The Promised Land, Denmark’s Oscar submission ...
Nikolaj Arcel: I’ve always loved the scope of epic films, but this time around, I didn’t want to return to a certain period so much as I fell in love with the characters in the source novel, “The Captain and Ann Barbara” by Ida Jessen.
