Mads Mikkelsen stars in a familiar but satisfying tale of a resilient homesteader, a greedy landowner, abused servants and the taming of unruly territory.
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Nikolaj Arcel's "The Promised Land" is aptly titled. Adapted from the novel "The Captain and Ann Barbara" by Ida Jessen, the land itself - the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes up the continental portion of Denmark - proves to be both setting and character, as mercurial, tormented a