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Sweet Land is a 2005 American independent period drama film written and directed by Ali Selim. It is an adaptation of the 1989 short story "A Gravestone Made of Wheat" by Will Weaver. The film stars Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty, John Heard, Alex Kingston and Alan Cumming.
Sweet Land. When Inge Altenberg (Elizabeth Reaser), a young German woman, arrives in rural Minnesota, she meets Norwegian farmer Olaf Torvik (Tim Guinee), a fellow immigrant.
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- Ali Selim
- PG
- Elizabeth Reaser
Sep 22, 2024 · Sweet Land is 13653 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 16661 places since yesterday. In the United Kingdom, it is currently more popular than Pushpa: The Rise but less popular than And Breathe Normally.
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- Ali Selim
- PG
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Exceptionally photographed and remarkably performed by actors Tim Guinee and Elizabeth Reaser, Sweet Land is modest, but demonstrative, eager to detail a love story that sustains for a lifetime.
Sweet Land: Directed by Ali Selim. With Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski. In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
- (4.2K)
- Drama, Romance
- Ali Selim
- 2008-07-31
Build 40d1077 (7866) Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
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Review by Dave ★★★★½. "Sweet Land" is a gem that is still waiting to be discovered. Critics love it, but the audiences regretfully haven’t found it. It’s a fantastic little film set in the '20s about a young woman who emigrated from Germany in order to marry Olaf, a quiet farmer in Minnesota.
