Sanctified
We always pay in blood
2022 | 82m | English
Popularity: 5 (history)
| Director: | Nickolaus Swedlund |
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| Writer: | Nickolaus Swedlund, Daniel Bielinski |
| Staring: |
| An outlaw is rescued from death by a nun who is traveling through the Badlands. She nurses him back to health in exchange for him guiding her to a Church in Williston. A deep friendship develops between these two unlikely people as they learn to work together to survive their dangerous journey. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 30, 2022 |
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| Director: | Nickolaus Swedlund |
| Writer: | Nickolaus Swedlund, Daniel Bielinski |
| Genres: | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western |
| Keywords | dakota, north dakota, south dakota, badlands |
| Production Companies | DN Cinematics, Headwaters Entertainment, Canticle Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2026 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Daniel Bielinski | Weston |
| Tiffany Cornwell | Hildegard |
| Andrew E. Wheeler | Shaw |
| Carl Swanson | Emmett |
| Chelsey Grant | Claire |
| Allan Demaray | Little Hawk |
| Kevin Lokey | Fur Trader |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Chelsey Grant | Stunts, Weapons Wrangler, Weapons Master |
| Nickolaus Swedlund | Screenplay, Director |
| Michele Renner | Costume Designer |
| Emme Hulm | Editor |
| Will Van De Crommert | Music |
| Daniel Bielinski | Story |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
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**_“The world is a kingdom of pain and suffering”_** In the Badlands of North Dakota, 1890, a nun (Tiffany Cornwell) helps a wounded outlaw (Daniel Bielinski) and uses him to find a remote church facility, but the man’s former boss, an arrogant sadist, doesn’t take kindly to this (Andrew E. Wheel ... er). “Sanctified” (2022) takes the basic premise of “Two Mules for Sister Sara” and mixes it with the gritty realism of life on the prairie in the Old West of “Bad Company” (1972). It’s a morality tale that examines the toughest questions of life, such as ‘Is there a God?’ and ‘If there is, why does the Creator allow people to brutally suffer in a godforsaken world?’ It pulls no punches and is reminiscent of “The Proposition” in some ways. It runs 1 hour, 29 minutes, and was shot in Medora in west-central North Dakota. GRADE: B