The Emigrants / Utvandrarna

The Emigrants tells how a handful of persecuted and poverty-stricken men and women left Sweden, a century ago and faced the Atlantic, believing that beyond it they would find a free, happy country of opportunity. The efforts, often grim and heart rending, that this journey entailed are described with a supreme realism that looks on truth in all its brutality, and yet with compassion. The basic themes of life - the struggle to make the earth fertile and to subdue the seas and the winds, the passions and pain of families, persistence in faith and resistance against intolerance - are treated here in a way to make The Emigrants a truly unforgettable story.