Denmark leads all countries with eight international Oscar nominations in the 21st century, and Mads Mikkelsen has been in four of them, including the 2020 winner “Another Round” and the 2012 nominee “A Royal Affair,” which introduced Alicia Vikander to U.S. audiences.
He has a chance to make it five this year with “The Promised Land,” the 2023 Danish Oscar submission that also stars Mikkelsen. Like “A Royal Affair,” “The Promised Land” is a period drama directed by Nikolaj Arcel — and Mikkelsen’s experience working on that earlier film was a major reason why he was eager to head the cast of the new one as Ludvig Kahlen, a real-life former soldier who tried to build a settlement on the barren and inhospitable Jutland heath in 1755.
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