Editing The Emigrants (film) (section)

==Production==
===Development===
Plans for adapting ''[[The Emigrants (novel series)|The Emigrants]]'' novels began late in 1967. Its author, [[Vilhelm Moberg]], had seen [[Jan Troell]]'s film ''[[Here Is Your Life]]'' before producer [[Bengt Forslund]] approached him about an ''Emigrants'' film. [[SF Studios]] wished to adapt all four novels, although it was uncertain how such a film structure would work.{{sfn|Wessell|1972|p=15}}

Moberg requested Forslund and Troell meet him, and the three men mapped out a plot, with 98 scenes, finishing in March 1968. They also envisioned [[Max von Sydow]], [[Liv Ullmann]] and [[Eddie Axberg]] as the ideal stars.{{sfn|Wessell|1972|p=15}} Troell and Forslund went [[location scouting]] in the United States in September 1968, but found many of the lands were too developed or could not accommodate film equipment.{{sfn|Wessell|1972|p=16}}

===Filming===
[[File:Krageholmssjön.jpg|thumb|Lake Krageholm was a filming location.]]
The scenes set in [[Chisago Lakes]] were actually filmed at Lake Krageholm in [[Scania]], [[Sweden]]. Filming took place from June 1969 to January 1970, and then from May to August 1970.{{sfn|Wessell|1972|p=16}}

Ullmann said that for ''The Emigrants'' and ''The New Land'', which were shot at the same time, the actors had to learn historic methods of [[laundry]], and also that the brief scene in ''The Emigrants'' where she is on a [[Swing (seat)|swing]] took two days to film.{{sfn|Ullmann|2006|p=6}}

The film employed 20 actors and 500 [[Extra (acting)|extras]]. The combined cost of the two films was [[Swedish krona|kr]] 7 million, making them the most expensive Swedish film produced until that time.{{sfn|Wessell|1972|p=16}}