The Emigrants review - gritty old-worlders make rewarding trek to American frontier

Powerfully told story of 19th-century Swedish migrants takes its time, but delivers a fresh, honest take on their arduous path This epic-scale adaptation of a series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg deserves its 148-minute running time, giving the plot enough space to cover a wide and deep tale of a Swedish community's transition to the New World in the middle of the 19th century. You'd think this kind of coming-to-America story would by now be as exhausted as the poor soil that farmer Karl-Oskar Nil...