If Nina Hoss is in a movie, watch it even if you hate subtitles. Hoss stars in Gold, which is set during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. A small group of German immigrants head into the Canadian wilderness to seek a theoretically better life as gold prospectors. The group consists of an older married couple, the leader of the group, a horse wrangler, a journalist, a lone mysterious woman, and a father/husband. As the obstacles become deadly, they must decide whether or not the increasingly likelihood of death or mortal harm is more dreadful than returning to the past.
Gold delivers a much-needed European immigrant perspective on the Western. Gold is a German film set in the New World, and it is stunningly beautiful, but bleak in its relationship between man and indifferent nature. Gold is a psychological examination of what drives people to take such extreme action and how they react when their imagined identity clashes with reality. Note to self: your prejudices and false sense of superiority can get you in a lot of trouble. Gold does use tropes such as the greedy scammer and the drunk troublemaker, but the tropes are infused with enough emotion to garner pity from this viewer that I did not mind.
Gold is realistically paced and generally devoid of sensationalism except during the second to last scene. My only criticism is the foreboding, but brief introduction of two characters that gives away what will happen to one of the characters.
I highly recommend that you watch Gold unless you absolutely hate subtitles. Gold is a riveting meditation on human nature and a visual masterpiece.