Genre: Drama
Tagline: A love story
Plot: Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant experience.When Lars Torvik’s grandmother Inge dies in 2004, he is faced with a decision – sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920, or cling to the legacy of the land. Seeking advice, he turns to the memory of Inge and the stories that she had passed on to him. Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf but her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers makes her an object of suspicion in the small town, and she and Olaf are forbidden to marry. Alone and adrift, Inge goes to live with the family of Olaf’s friend and neighbor Frandsen and his wife Brownie, where she learns the English language, American ways, and a hard-won independence. Inge and Olaf slowly come to know each other, and against the backdrop of endless farmland and cathedral skies they fall in love, a man and woman united by the elemental forces of nature. Still unable to marry, they live together openly, despite the scorn of the neighbors and the disapproval of the local minister. But when his friend Frandsen’s farm is threatened by foreclosure, Olaf takes
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Tim Guinee
Blade, Ladder 49, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America |
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 | John Heard
Home Alone, Big, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York |
 | Alex Kingston
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Carrington, The Poseidon Adventure |
 | Elizabeth Reaser
The Family Stone, The Believer, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Ned Beatty
Superman, Deliverance, All the President's Men | | |
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| Mark Orton
The Good Girl, The Real Dirt on Farmer John |
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