If you loved La nuova terra, try Karl e Kristina
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Jan Troell, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama / History / Western territory. If that's the register that drew you to La nuova terra, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Karl e Kristina is
Outbound Swedes meets IKEA catalog escape fantasy. A farming couple trades subzero Swedish winters for the promise of Minnesota soil after religious crackdowns and crop failures make life untenable. Their brutal year-long voyage culminates in pastoral hope. Jan Troell’s historical Western glows with quiet endurance.

