The Promised Land
A historical drama set in 1755 Denmark, The Promised Land follows an impoverished Danish man (Mads Mikkelsen) who’s granted a “royal warrant” to help build a colony for the king, which requires farming uninhabitable land. Thieves, robber barons, disdainful overlords, and romance intervene in his pursuit of a noble title in what Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri