The Promised Land (2023)
Release Date
2023-10-05
Rating
8
Duration
127 min
Keywords
based on novel or book murder priest colonisation soldier king 18th century farming danish danish history ex military historical drama shocking aggressive hopeless landowner 1750s history furious violence tense depressing antagonistic pessimistic
Qualities
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...?
