The Promised Land

Mads Mikkelsen stars in Denmark’s entry for the Best International Feature at the 2024 Oscars. This Nordic western is set in 18th-century Denmark, where Capt. Ludvig Kahlen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. This beautiful but forbidding area is under the rule of Frederik De Schinkel, a merciless nobleman who realises the threat Kahlen represents to his power, leading to a violent and intense confrontation between the two men.