The Salvation Page #2

Synopsis: The American West in the 1870s. A European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. He takes revenge on the murderers, only to discover that one was the brother of a local land baron, Henry Delarue. Delarue runs the local town with a brutal hand. Now he wants vengeance on the man who killed his brother and the local townspeople are too scared of him to stand up to him. Jon is fighting more than just the local thugs, he is facing the entire town.
Genre: Drama, Western
Director(s): Kristian Levring
Production: IFC Films
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
2014
92 min
Website
543 Views


Raul, look.

I'll go and talk to the sheriff.

See you in a bit.

Good day to you.

Where is your grandmother?

She is dead.

Delarue shot her.

I'm sorry to hear that.

What can I do for you?

I've got some skins.

Were going west.

So the only two men around here

know how to shoot, are leaving.

I guess so.

Weren't you two soldiers back,

were you came from?

We can use people like you,

If we ever gonna face that murderer.

You know I was a soldier once,

and it taught me a lesson.

Don't get into a fight,

you know, you gonna lose.

Cowards.

Who is that?

Jon.

Well...

It's good to see you

in color for once.

Are you still buying up land?

I do occasionally, Yeah.

- How much will we get?

- Well..

I couldn't possibly

give you more than 145

That's half of what we paid

for the land 6 years ago.

Oh well, like I said,

times are hard.

Since Delarue raised his fees,

there's a lot of people want to sell.

Still, you're a good man,

and I wanna help.

Let's make it a 150?

Or you can bide your time.

Who knows? If they find the man

who killed Delarue's brother..

Well, tempers may calm

and prices may rise.

- What man?

- You don't know?

Delarue's brother just got out

of jail and some lunatic killed him.

Shot everyone on the stagecoach.

Since then it's... well..

- I'll take the 150.

- You won't regret it.

I need you to sign this.

Here.

You sign that.

Where will you go?

I'm trying find a

place further west.

I probably do the same,

if I was a young man.

That's for you.

And this is for me.

You'll need to keep that

money somewhere safe.

In your boots, maybe?

There a lot of hungry people out there.

14,15 - deeds at a collected

sum of 3,148 dollars.

And 12 percent,

your entitled to 3,524.

And 76 cents.

Let's make it a dollar.

Madelaine takes pride on making

sure those books add up.

Well, the devil is in the detail...

The company doesn't like

the way things are going.

Are you aware that the

sheriff in Black Creek

wired the federal

government for help.

I manage to blocked the

communication for now.

But you can't go on using the same

methods you used in the army.

These people are not Indians.

Standard Atlantic, is a modern

company Colonel Delarue.

And we need our operations

to look civilized.

Am I making myself clear?

Good.

Now, How long before Black

Creek is bought up?

I'll have the whole valley bought up in

a week if you let me do things my way.

Just answer the question.

You keep your cavalry

out of the equation,

I recon it'll take me

3 to 4 months.

That's all I needed to know.

Good day to you.

So they want me to be

civilize, princess.

Hell, I guest I can do that.

As long as we keep

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Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. more…

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