The film uses a non-linear narrative, beginning in 1968 as an elderly Inge buries her husband, Olaf. It then flashes back to 1920 to recount their struggle to build a life together:
Based on Will Weaver's short story, A Gravestone Made of Wheat Setting: Post-WWI rural Minnesota farm country Genre: Period Drama / Romance
Still reeling from WWI, the local minister and neighbors harbor deep anti-German sentiment and shun the couple for living together out of wedlock.
Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Ned Beatty, and Lois Smith
The film uses a non-linear narrative, beginning in 1968 as an elderly Inge buries her husband, Olaf. It then flashes back to 1920 to recount their struggle to build a life together:
Based on Will Weaver's short story, A Gravestone Made of Wheat Setting: Post-WWI rural Minnesota farm country Genre: Period Drama / Romance Sweet Land (2005)
Still reeling from WWI, the local minister and neighbors harbor deep anti-German sentiment and shun the couple for living together out of wedlock. The film uses a non-linear narrative, beginning in
Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Ned Beatty, and Lois Smith The film uses a non-linear narrative