Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for its historical drama film, The Promised Land. Starring award-winning actor Mads Mikkelsen as the determined yet poverty-stricken war hero Captain Ludvig Kahlen, the upcoming feature will hit theaters on February 2, 2024.
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, who has previously worked with Mikkelsen for the 2012 acclaimed drama A Royal Affair, the 127-minute feature is written by Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen (Adam’s Apples).
What is The Promised Land about?
Set in 18th-century Denmark, The Promised Land, which Arcel described as his “most personal film to date,” chronicles the story of an impoverished veteran soldier named Ludvig Kahlen as he embarks on a journey to establish a colony in an uninhabitable land.
“In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) — a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero — sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain a noble title for himself. This beautiful but forbidding area also happens to be under the rule of the merciless Frederik De Schinkel, a preening nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power,” the synopsis reads.
It added, “Struggling against the elements and local brigands, Kahlen is joined by a couple who have fled the clutches of the rapacious De Schinkel. As this group of misfits begins to build a small community in this inhospitable place, De Schinkel swears vengeance, and the confrontation between him and Kahlen promises to be as violent and intense as these two men.”
Based on Ida Jessen’s novel The Captain and Ann Barbara, the upcoming film also stars Amanda Collin, Gustav Lindh, Simon Bennebjerg, and Melina Hagberg.
The Promised Land premieres on February 2. You can check out the film’s images down below:
