The Emigrants – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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LAND ahoy, Kristina (Lisa Carlehed) and Karl Oskar (Gustaf Skarsgård) with three of their children, after a gruelling passage between Sweden and America in the 19th century, in a scene from The Emigrants. Photograph courtesy scandinavianfilmfestival.com

WHILE XENOPHOBIA MAY be one of the central discourses to the world we currently occupy, it is always coupled with the horror of being a stranger, trying to make good, in a strange land. Erik Poppe’s version of The Emigrants, a film which first saw light of day in 1971, based on a novel published in 1949, traces the life-changing paths chosen by the people who made us who we are today. Whoever we are. You can see it on this year’s European Film Festival; designed to be hybrid, it offers limited screenings and online access in Johannesburg and Cape Town, between 13 and 23 October, Mbabane between 21 and 23 October and Maseru, between 28 and 30 October.

This film has the makings of a classic. It is a tale which doesn’t…

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