Relationships between the emigrants shift during the journey. It’s a long journey, and not without danger. Like many Swedes at the time, Kristina and Karl-Oskar decide to emigrate to America, along with several relatives and other locals. "… in a film that is in its way a genuine condensed version of Vilhelm Moberg’s epic about ‘the way home to a foreign forest’." When the family grows, it just means more mouths to feed. They also suffer under the authority of the ruling class, often in the form of priests, county officers and well-to-do farmers. Drought, crop failure, famine and death are commonplace. To describe the couple’s lives as tough is an understatement.
It follows a couple, Karl-Oskar and Kristina, their families, and the evolution of the community.
The Emigrants is set in the parish of Ejdern in southern Sweden in the middle of the 1800s.
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