Sweet Land

When a headstrong, comely German immigrant (Elizabeth Reaser) comes to Minnesota in 1920 to marry a shy Norwegian farmer (Tim Guine) in this charming, heartbreaking, and poignant love story, her fiancé's neighbors (Alan Cumming and Alex Kingston) initially welcome her to their closeknit, rural community, but just as abruptly she is shunned and ostracized by the prejudicial minister (John Heard), the greedy banker (Ned Beatty), and suspicious and skeptical townsfolk out of their own fear and ignorance after they discover she is of German not Scandinavian descent.
|
|
|