Denmark, 1755. Soldier Ludvig Kahlen arrives on the wild land of Jutland to follow the king’s call to cultivate it, hoping to achieve wealth and honor. But Kahlen quickly makes an enemy in merciless landowner Frederik De Schinkel, who believes he is the sole ruler of the area.

Mads Mikkelsen is the defiant, impoverished war hero who sets out to tame a vast, barren landscape in this thrilling period drama from director Nikolaj Arcel. A tale of conflict and vengeance with a sweeping grandeur redolent of the American western, The Promised Land is an irresistible Danish epic.