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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543449744
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: A young Inge Alltenburg travels to Minnesota in the 1920's to marry Olaf Torvik, a Norwiegan man who lives there. It is Inge's story of not being able to marry Olaf due to there different citizenship's, and not being accepted because of the war with Germany. Over time she learns English and befriends Olaf, Frances, and Frances' family. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rat
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1NorwegianOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2244974
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Features:- A young Inge Alltenburg travels to Minnesota in the 1920's to marry Olaf Torvik, a Norwiegan man who lives there. It is Inge's story of not being able to marry Olaf due to there different citizenship's, and not being accepted because of the war with Germany. Over time she learns English and befriends Olaf, Frances, and Frances' family. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rat
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com:
Adapted from a Will Weaver story, Ali Selim's Sweet Land is a truly sweet story about unlikely immigrant lovers whose struggle for integration into 1920's America earns them a work ethic more American than many of their narrow-minded neighbors. Set in rural Minnesota, the sentimental film focuses on tribulations that Scandinavian settlers experienced, with a cinematic serenity reminiscent of Terrence Malik's Days of Heaven. Norwegian farmer Olaf Torvik (Tim Guinee) invites a non-English speaking German siren, Inge Alltenburg (Elizabeth Reaser), to relocate and marry him, but discovers that neither the town's Lutheran pastor (John Heard) nor the local judge will marry a German into their community for fear of wartime German spies. Inge finds friendship in neighbors Frandsen (Alan Cumming) and his wife, Brownie (Alex Kingston), who disregarding local gossip, welcome her into their home. Finally, Inge proves herself, settling in so that Sweet Land's historical narrative is framed by Inge, fifty years later, speaking to her adult son about her husband's death and their plot of land. This multi-generational tale of social acceptance and land ownership is ultimately the story of America, though the regional specificity of Sweet Land will speak especially to those familiar with Midwestern culture. --Trinie Dalton
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Rating:  -
On my mother's side of the family, all 4 of my maternal great-grandparents were
Norwegian. All of them tried homesteading/farming in North Dakota AND Alberta
before moving to the Pacific Northwest to live in a house, on a city lot, and work for wages.
"Banking and farming don't mix" - my relatives who are still out there on the
Great Plains farming live by this bit of folk wisdom - and have for over a hundred years.
The romance in this movie may - or ... Read More
Rating: -
I'm not going to go into any great detail about SWEET LAND, which is also a very sweet movie, as previous reviewers here have done that already. I just wanted to add my opinion to the 50 others who have come before me.
This was a simple story about two immigrants who grow to learn about and love each other despite the obstacles they have to overcome along the way. This was also an adult romance without any sex, violence, or four-letter-words...and not even one Ford Model-T was blown ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is a great film, and I love it to pieces. The only reason I wouldn't give this five stars is that a lot of the non-English in it is just gibberish. Even when the actual languages are used, sometimes basic grammatical mistakes are made. If just a little more time had been taken on the non-English languages which are rather prominent in this movie I would enjoy it more. However like I said before this is a really good film in all other ways and I highly recommend it.
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This is a sweet story about attachment to place as well as people. It's love story is true to life and very touching.
Rating:  -
Here's a film that aspires to be included in the ranks of European Art Films but unfortunately doesn't quite make the grade. Before we flashback to the main story, we're treated to two "flash forward" scenes: one set in the 60s when the main character, Inge, buries her husband and another scene twenty or so years later when the grandson buries Inge. Instead of getting right into the story which is set in 1920s Minnestoa, we're treated to quite a bit of slow-paced, unnecessary exposition. When we finally ... Read More
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