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Sweet Land

Sweet Land. A presentation by Leanna Chojnacki. Basic Movie Information. Based on a short story called “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” Came out in 2005 Time: 110 minutes long Category: Drama/ Romance Rated: PG Director: Ali Selim Writers: Will Weaver & Ali Selim Actors:

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Sweet Land

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  1. Sweet Land A presentation by Leanna Chojnacki

  2. Basic Movie Information • Based on a short story called “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” • Came out in 2005 • Time:110 minutes long • Category: Drama/ Romance • Rated: PG • Director: Ali Selim • Writers: • Will Weaver & Ali Selim • Actors: • Elizabeth Reaser (Young Inge) • Lois Smith (Old Inge) • Patrick Heusinger (Young Lars) • Alan Cumming (Young Frandsen) • Movie Trailer • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NNYoqZAmAc&feature=player_embedded

  3. Movie Plot

  4. Movie Review • Director • Language • “I could eat a horse” • Scenes • Flashbacks • Bright, Rich, (Un)Colorful • Symbolism • Land • Message of the film

  5. German Immigration • Between 1830s and 1880s • From 1820 to 1924 5,643,893 Germans came to the United States • Germans were about a quarter of all immigrants during this time • Travelled with families • Settled mostly in Pennsylvania in rural areas • Germantown, Pennsylvania (October 6, 1683) • Dutch Sponsorship  Pennsylvania Dutch • 89,544 Germans in PA between 1727 to 1820 • How to identify a German • Germans, Alsatians, Austrians, some Russians Hutterites, Luxembourgers, & Swiss • Reasons for leaving: • Religious freedom (Lutherans, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish), political & economic conditions

  6. German Immigration (Continued) • Outside of the United States 10% went to… • Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Canada, and South America • 1860 to 1890 two-fifths of Germans moved into large cities • New York City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Saint Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, & Detroit • Jobs: • Butchers, bakers, domestic workers, hotel keepers, janitors, peddlers, tailors, and brewers • Spread out to Midwest and well into California • Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act) • 57,000 German immigrants were allowed into the U.S. • Skilled & Educated

  7. German Immigrants: WW I • World War I • From 1917 to 1918 4,000 Germans were imprisoned • 480,000 were put on a list by the Justice Department of all those who were considered German aliens • Several were accused of being spies and supported the German war effort

  8. German Immigrants: WW II • World War II • 114,000 Anti-Nazi party and Jewish Germans had come to the U.S. between 1931 and 1940 • Germans were discriminated against and always suspected of being pro-Nazi or pro-Germany • Less so than Asians • Alien Registration Act of 1940 • 300,000 German borns with German citizenship had restricted travel and property ownership Voluntary internees ended up in camps

  9. German Immigrants Today • After World War II during the 1940s refugees from Germany were coming to the United States • Most that come over after 1970s are well educated and are treated like other Western Europeans • Desired immigrants • Today over 50 million Americans are of German decent which equates to about 17% of the U.S. population

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