---
title: 'The Emigrants (1971)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jan Troell'
released: '1971-03-08'
runtime_minutes: 151
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Sweden'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-emigrants-1971'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067919/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Emigrants (1971)

1971 · 151 min · Drama, History · Sweden

Original title: Utvandrarna

## Synopsis

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 its 1972 sequel, The New Land (Nybyggarna), which were produced concurrently, are based on Vilhelm Moberg's The Emigrants, a series of novels about poor Swedes who emigrate from Småland, Sweden, in the mid-19th century and make their home in Minnesota. This film adapts the first two of the four novels–The Emigrants (1949) and Unto a Good Land (1952)–which depict the hardships the emigrants experience in Sweden and on their journey to America.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell)
- **Screenplay:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell), [Bengt Forslund](https://cinepixo.com/people/bengt-forslund)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell)
- **Editor:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell)
- **Producer:** [Bengt Forslund](https://cinepixo.com/people/bengt-forslund)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Erik Nordgren](https://cinepixo.com/people/erik-nordgren)

## Cast

- [Halvar Björk](https://cinepixo.com/people/halvar-bjork) as Anders Månsson
- [Monica Zetterlund](https://cinepixo.com/people/monica-zetterlund) as Ulrika
- [Allan Edwall](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-edwall) as Danjel Andreasson
- [Liv Ullmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/liv-ullmann) as Kristina Nilsson
- [Hans Alfredson](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-alfredson) as Jonas Petter
- [Eddie Axberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-axberg) as Robert Nilsson
- [Tom Fouts](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-fouts) as Pastor Jackson
- [Max von Sydow](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-von-sydow) as Karl Oskar Nilsson
- [Åke Fridell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ake-fridell) as Aron
- [Agneta Prytz](https://cinepixo.com/people/agneta-prytz) as Fina-Kajsa
- [Pierre Lindstedt](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-lindstedt) as Arvid

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