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The Emigrants helped make Jan Troell prominent internationally. The sequel, The New Land (Nybyggarna), was released in 1972. The 1974 U.S. television series The New Land is based loosely on both The Emigrants and its sequel. [26] The creation of the TV series can be attributed to the popularity of the films. [27]
The Emigrants (1971) was based on the first two novels. The New Land (1972) was a sequel based on the last two novels. The American television series The New Land (1974) starred Scott Thomas, Bonnie Bedelia, and Kurt Russell, and was broadcast by ABC. The series was loosely based on the 1971 and 1972 film adaptations. 13 episodes were produced ...
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna, 1949) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg.It is the first of his four-novel series entitled The Emigrants.In these he explores the causes and process of the major Swedish emigration to the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, and their settling in such frontier areas as the Minnesota Territory.
It is the second of his four-novel The Emigrants series. It was translated into English in 1954 and was also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, it was adapted as a film The Emigrants (1971), directed by Jan Troell. A sequel based on the third and fourth novels was released in 1972.
The Emigrants and The New Land were edited as The Emigrant Saga and aired on television. [8] The films were first released for home video viewing in the United States in February 2016, when The Criterion Collection released both films on DVD and Blu-ray. The films had been frequently requested by customers. [9]
The musical Kristina från Duvemåla (English title Kristina) (1995) by ex‑ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson is based on Moberg's The Emigrants Series. [8] A later film adaptation, known simply as The Emigrants was released in 2021, and in August 2022 on digital platforms. [9] [10]
The New Land, a sequel to the 1971 film; The Emigrants (Sebald novel), a 1993 novel by German author W.G. Sebald; The Emigrants, a novel by Norwegian author Johan Bojer Vor egen stamme or The Emigrants (1924/English 1925) The Emigrants, a poem by Charlotte Smith published in two volumes in 1793.
Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg wrote a series of four books about a group of Swedish-American emigrants, starting with The Emigrants (1949), which were translated in the 1950s and 1960s. They were also filmed by Jan Troell as The Emigrants and The New Land .