The poor soldier Ludvig Kahlen arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king's call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honor himself.
The Danish actor is back on wide-screen home turf in The Promised Land, an 18th-century Nordic epic that's ripe with villainy and violence; romance and redemption. Mikkelsen plays Ludvig Kahlen ...
"The Promised Land" star on playing the baddie in some of the biggest film franchises, working with Rihanna, and stepping back into Hannibal's blood-soaked shoes. From a sinister banker who cries ...