Jan Troell
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Jan Gustaf Troell is a Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of
Troell at the 2013 Stockholm Film Festival
The Emigrants (1971 film)
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The Emigrants is a 1971 Swedish drama film directed and co-written by Jan Troell, and starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund, and Pierre Lindstedt. It and i
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…Saw Him Die? (Ole dole doff, 1968) won the Golden Bear award at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. Troell's major work in the 1970s became The Emigrants (Utvandrarna, 1971) and its sequel The New Land (Nybyggarna, 1972), two epic films about peasants emigrating from the barren Swedish countryside to The…
Lake Krageholm was a filming location.
The Emigrants helped make Jan Troell prominent internationally.