“The Promised Land” is a 2023 Danish epic historical film starring Mads Mikkelsen.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.
- The Promised Land is a 2023 epic historical drama film
- The Danish title is Bastarden
- It is directed by Nikolaj Arcel
- From a screenplay by Arcel & Anders Thomas Jensen
- Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin and Simon Bennebjerg
- With Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh, Jakob Lohmann, Morten Hee Andersen, Magnus Krepper and Felix Kramer in supporting roles
- The film is based on the book The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen
- It is a joint Danish-German-Swedish co-production
- The Promised Land had its world premiere on 31 August 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival
- There it competed for the Golden Lion
- It was selected as the Danish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards
- It was one of the 15 finalist films in the December shortlist
- Principal photography began on September 5, 2022
- It wrapped in early November of the same year
- Filming took place on locations in Germany, Sweden and Czechia
- The Promised Land had its world premiere on August 31, 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, to then screen on September 7, 2023 at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival
- It was also invited at the 28th Busan International Film Festival in ‘World Cinema’ section and was screened on 6 October 2023
- It was released commercially on October 5, 2023, in Danish theaters
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 90% rating
- Based on 30 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 7.3/10
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 76 out of 100
- Based on 11 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable” reviews
- It will be released nationwide in the US February 4th, 2024
