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Zandy's Bride is a american film of genre Western directed by Jan Troell released in USA on 19 may 1974 with Gene Hackman

Zandy's Bride (1974)

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Released in USA 19 may 1974

Length 1h56

Directed by Jan Troell

OriginUSA

Genres Western

Rating62%

Zandy's Bride is a 1974 American film directed by Jan Troell. It stars Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann.

The film is also known as For Better, for Worse in the USA (TV title). It was filmed on location near Big Sur, California.

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Zandy Allan is a hard-working cattle rancher in a remote part of the American West who needs a hired hand more than he needs a wife. He sends away for a mail-order bride, a Swedish woman who lives near Minneapolis. Expecting a woman in her 20s, Zandy is disappointed when Hannah Lund turns out to be 32. He is not interested in love, only in work, although this does not keep him from misbehaving around a local woman named Maria. Hannah is here, in his mind, strictly to help Zandy run his ranch and provide future sons. However, the more time he spends with Hannah, the less he comes to treat her as a possession that he has bought, in no small part because of her insistence that she be treated with respect.

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Gene Hackman
(Zandy Allen)

Liv Ullmann
(Hanna Lund)

Eileen Heckart
(Ma Allan)

Susan Tyrrell
(Marai Cordova)

Harry Dean Stanton
(Songer)

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Joe Santos
Frank Cady
Sam Bottoms

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Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Western
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The New Land (1972)

, 2h15
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Films about immigration, Films about capital punishment
Actors Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall
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