History Film / TheNewLand

* NiceHat: Kristina is bowled over when her friend Ulrika shows off an enormous purple hat festooned with flowers that she was given by her new husband.

* InjunCountry: Still a lot of Sioux in Minnesota territory when the family arrives. Kristina is terrified of them, and at one point hallucinates two Sioux warriors walking into her house uninvited, picking up Karl-Oskar's hunting rifle, and pointing it at her and the children. The film's final act is set during the 1862 Sioux Uprising, when several hundred European settlers were massacred by the Sioux after a standoff with the US government led to widespread starvation.

* CarcassSleepingBag: When Karl-Oskar and his son Johan are caught out in the open as a blizzard hits, the boy eventually collapses. Karl-Oskar saves Johan's life by slicing open the oxen that was pulling their cart and stuffing Johan inside while he goes to get help.

* CantHaveSexEver: The verdict after Karl-Oskar and Kristina learn that another pregnancy might kill her. Eventually Kristina decides to have sex with her husband again, regardless of the consequences.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Robert wakes up after a night back home to find blood on his sheet. He hides it.
* InjunCountry: Still a lot of Sioux in Minnesota territory when the family arrives. Kristina is terrified of them.

* MoralGuardians: The obnoxious neighbors who demand that Karl-Oskar and Kristina shun Ulrika for marrying a Baptist and leaving the Lutheran church.
* MorningSickness: How Kristina finds out that Ulrika is pregnant.

* TragicBromance: Robert and Arvid end up this way.

''The New Land'' is a 1972 film from UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}, directed and co-written by Jan Troell, starring Creator/MaxVonSydow and Creator/LivUllmann, telling the story of the people would be saying "Yah, you betcha" 140 years later in ''Film/{{Fargo}}''.

* ThirstyDesert: Robert and Arvid's ill-advised pursuit of a runaway mule leads to them getting lost in one. Arvid dies from drinking tainted water but Robert is rescued.

* CarcassSleepingBag: When Karl-Oskar and his son Johan are caught out in the open as a blizzard hits, the boy eventually collapses. Karl-Oskar saves Johan's life by slicing open the on that was pulling their cart and stuffing Johan inside while he goes to get help.

It is an adaptation of the Swedish novel series ''Literature/TheEmigrants'' and sequel to 1971 film ''The Emigrants'', which also starred Von Sydow and Ullmann. Von Sydow and Ullmann reprise their roles of Karl-Oskar and Kristina Nilsson. The film opens with Karl-Oskar and Kristina arriving in Minnesota in 1850, taking up residents as tenant farmers in the countryside and joining a small community of fellow Swedish immigrants. Life is difficult for the new arrivals, with the normal burdens of the pioneer farmer combined with the increased expense of living in America, the brutality of the winters on the Great Plains, and the danger presented by the Sioux Indians, which culminates with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862 1862 Dakota War]].

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Done with perfection by Max von Sydow in the scene where Kristina dies following a miscarriage.

''The New Land'' is a 1972 film from UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}, directed and co-written by Jan Troell, starring Creator/MaxVonSydow and Creator/LivUllmann.

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''The New Land'' is a 1972 film from UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}, directed and co-written by Jan Troell, starring Creator/MaxVonSydow and Creator/LivUllmann, telling the story of the people would be saying "Yah, you betcha" 140 years later in ''Film/{{Fargo}}''.

* GraveMarkingScene: Karl-Oskar visiting Kristina's grave at the end.

* TemptingFate: "Anders says that the Indians aren't hostile," says Karl-Oskar in 1850. Well, they weren't hostile ''then''.

It is an adaptation of the Swedish novel series ''Literature/TheEmigrants'' and sequel to 1971 film ''The Emigrants'', which also starred Von Sydow and Ullmann. Von Sydow and Ullmann reprise their roles of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson. The film opens with Karl Oskar and Kristina arriving in Minnesota in 1850, taking up residents as tenant farmers in the countryside and joining a small community of fellow Swedish immigrants. Life is difficult for the new arrivals, with the normal burdens of the pioneer farmer combined with the increased expense of living in America, the brutality of the winters on the Great Plains, and the danger presented by the Sioux Indians, which culminates with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862 1862 Dakota War]].

* DeterminedHomesteader: Karl Oskar, determined to build a new and better life for his family in America. Kristina has more mixed emotions about leaving their homeland.
* EpilogueLetter: A letter to the family back in Sweden telling how Karl Oskar mourned Kristina until he died, while his children assimilated fully to the United States, eventually forgetting how to speak Swedish.

* TemptingFate: "Anders says that the Indians aren't hostile," says Karl Oskar in 1850. Well, they weren't hostile ''then''.

It is an adaptation of the Swedish novel series ''Literature/TheEmigrants'' and sequel to 1971 film ''The Emigrants'', which also starred Von Sydow and Ullmann. Von Sydow and Ullmann reprise their roles of Karl Oskar and Kristina. The film opens with Karl Oskar and Kristina arriving in Minnesota in 1850, taking up residents as tenant farmers in the countryside and joining a small community of fellow Swedish immigrants. Life is difficult for the new arrivals, with the normal burdens of the pioneer farmer combined with the increased expense of living in America, the brutality of the winters on the Great Plains, and the danger presented by the Sioux Indians, which culminates with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862 1862 Dakota War]].

* AnImmigrantsTale: This being the story of the struggles of new arrivals.

* TemptingFate: "Anders says that the Indians aren't hostile," says Karl Oskar in 1850. Well, they weren't hostile then.