Still reeling from WWI, the local minister and neighbors harbor deep anti-German sentiment and shun the couple for living together out of wedlock.
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)
(2005) is a critically acclaimed independent romantic drama that tells the story of Inge, a German woman who travels to rural Minnesota in 1920 for an arranged marriage to a Norwegian farmer. Quick Facts Director: Ali Selim Still reeling from WWI, the local minister and
Inge arrives from Germany to marry Olaf, but they cannot legally wed because she lacks citizenship papers. Still reeling from WWI
Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Ned Beatty, and Lois Smith