Sweet Land Director: Ali Selim Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Lois Smith
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- DVD Release Date: 07/10/2007
- Original Release: 2005
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- Sales Rank: 7,135
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Features
Commentary by cast and crew; Sweet Land: A Labor of Love Story featurette; Theatrical trailer
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Disc #1 -- Sweet Land
1. A Death in the Family [:46]
2. 1968 [2:40]
3. Different Kinds of Happy [3:55]
4. 1920 [2:50]
5. No Amundsen [1:50]
6. Inge From Snåsa [3:11]
7. She Is Not One of Us [1:53]
8. The Banker [4:57]
9. We Hace to Be Careful [3:06]
10. A Photo [3:16]
11. Go With Frandsen [1:27]
12. Brownie's Family [2:55]
13. The Outsider [2:58]
14. Pie in Germany [2:03]
15. The Night Visitor [3:28]
16. Olaf's Guest [:48]
17. It's Not Personal [3:16]
18. Just Business [2:29]
19. Church-to-Church [2:30]
20. Fitting In [5:01]
21. Dancing in the Daylight [1:37]
22. God Judges [3:20]
23. Dreams [2:44]
24. The Harvest [2:16]
25. The Law and the Money [2:33]
26. Together [3:49]
27. Letters From Osnabruck [:04]
28. Married in My Heart [3:04]
29. Olaf's in the Field [4:19]
30. A Gravestone Made of Wheat [:46]
31. I Have a Photograph [3:44]
32. End Titles [5:57]
Editorial Reviews
A European exile finds herself a stranger in a strange land when she comes to the United States in this independent romantic comedy-drama. As a man ponders what to do with his family's estate after the death of his grandmother, he thinks back to how she first came to America shortly after World War I. Olaf (Tim Guinee) is a Norwegian-American farmer looking for a wife to share his home on the Minnesota prairie, and with eligible women in short supply locally, he sends away for a mail-order bride. Inge Ottenberg (Elizabeth Reaser) soon arrives at Olaf's doorstep, but while she's pretty, smart, and amiable, he's taken aback to discover she's not Norwegian but German, which after several years of anti-German propaganda does not make her popular with her new neighbors. Inge isn't very good with English, making it even harder to keep her background a secret, and the local pastor, Rev. Sorrensen (John Heard), is so outraged at the presence of a presumed Hun he refuses to perform their wedding. But Inge struggles to make friends with her new neighbors, in particular Olaf's best friend, Frandsen (Alan Cumming), a gadget fancier whose wife, Brownie (Alex Kingston), is better with mechanical items than he is. In time, Inge's cheerful nature and love of music begin to make an impression on the community as she shares her favorite tunes on her ever-present gramophone. Sweet Land was the first feature film from writer and director Ali Selim. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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