Over the weekend I checked out a movie at the library that
looked really good. It was called Sweet Land. It is set in 1920, Inge is from
Germany and she travels to Minnesota as a mail order bride to marry Olaf Torvik.
Inge met his parents in Norway. The four
of them made an agreement that allows her to immigrate to America if she
marries Olaf. She arrives in Minnesota with no immigration
papers. To make matters worse, she
accidentally obtained membership papers for the American Socialist Party. The minister and the county clerk refuse to
marry the two because of the obstacles they are facing.
Inge is feisty and can't speak very much
English. Olaf is very quiet and doesn't
say much. They are quite a pair. Sweet Land is a winner of the Audience Award
for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film
Festival. Alan Cummings plays Olaf's
good friend and neighbor who is a light hearted man with a sense of humor. This was a very cute movie, and I suggest if
you ever see it available somewhere that you take some time to watch it.
It was really good! :-)
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