Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film
by
Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Between 1840 and 1940, more than one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for...