As land dwelling animals, humans depend upon the land and land-based systems for basic survival. All humans, therefore, have a relationship to the land and this remains true regardless of how far removed from the land we might be in day-to-day life. It was my own consciousness of this reality that motivated my movement towards securing access to land, just four acres, and doing so has been nothing less than life affirming. I believe that the drive to be more self-sufficient, which is typically an aim of the smallholder, is about so much more than meeting basic needs of subsistence - it is an assertion of existence, sometimes of resistance, and always of personal sovereignty. 'The Promised Land', a Nordic drama starring Mads Mikkelsen and Amanda Collin, is a movie that depicts a human-land relationship and its impact upon personhood as a state of human being.


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The Promised Land is a film written by 2023 Nikolaj Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Nikolaj Arcel and starring Mads Mikkelsen and Amanda Collin. It is based on a book, 'The Captain and Ann Barbara', by Ida Jessen. It is a production of Zentropa Entertainments, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Sveriges Television, TV2 Danmark, Zentropa International Sweden and Zentropa and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures. No copyright is asserted by this video and use of all material from the film is for the purposes of research, study, and/or review only. No infringement of any copyright is intended.

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