The Salvation

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The Salvation is a classic western directed and co-written by Danish director Kristian Levring. It premiered as one of the midnight screenings at last year’s Cannes film festival. The cast includes Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jonathan Pryce, and Michael Raymond-James.

The mighty Mads Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed in the Wild West in this white-knuckle tale of revenge. When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier (Mikkelsen) incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down. Exploding with eye-popping action, dazzlingly dramatic frontier landscapes, and a smoldering performance by Eva Green, The Salvation is a rip- roaring, blood-spattered saga of sin and redemption.

We always think of the Western genre as universally American, but Levring is quick to point out that the wild west was a pretty big melting pot of cultures. “The majority of people who survived in the ‘Wild West’ were European immigrants. These people had fled from wars or poverty in the hope of making a new life. The Wild West’s history is also our history. It’s a tale about people who no longer had a viable life in Europe. People who left their roots to join the birth of a nation.”