Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
July 1, 1987Release Date
Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
July 1, 1987Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Nick Pickard
Mio
Christian Bale
Jum-Jum
Timothy Bottoms
The King
Susannah York
The Weaver Woman
Christopher Lee
Kato
Sverre Anker Ousdal
The Swordmaker
Lyubov Germanova
Jum-Jum's Mother
Igor Yasulovich
Eno
Geoffrey Staines
The Spirit
Gunilla Nyroos
Aunt Edna
Andrei Petrov
Jiri
Linn Stokke
Mrs. Lundin
Stig Engström
Benke's Father
Stig Engström
Benke's Father
Göran Lindström
Co-Producer
Vladimir Grammatikov
Director
William Aldridge
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Writer
Klas Olofsson
Executive Producer
Andrey Ivanov
Writer
Ingemar Ejve
Producer
Björn Ulvaeus
Original Music Composer / Music
Benny Andersson
Composer
Anders Eljas
Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 1, 1987
Original NameMio min Mio
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingPG
Budget$7,200,000
Box Office$2,300,000
Filming LocationsCrimea · Oreanda, Ukraine · Pinewood Studios · Scotland, United Kingdom · Moscow, Russia
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Wiki.
Mio in the Land of Faraway (Swedish: Mio min Mio; Russian: Мио, мой Мио, romanized: Mio, moy Mio) is a 1987 fantasy film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov, and starring Christopher Lee, Christian Bale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms and Susannah York. Based on the 1954 novel Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren, it tells the story of a boy from Stockholm who travels to an otherworldly fantasy realm and frees the land from an evil knight's oppression.
Mio in the Land of Faraway was co-produced by companies from Sweden, Norway and the Soviet Union with a budget of about fifty million Swedish kronor, making it the most expensive film adaptation of an Astrid Lindgren book during her lifetime. It featured an international cast consisting largely of British, Russian and Scandinavian actors, while its filming locations included Stockholm, Moscow, Crimea, and Scotland. The film was shot in English and subsequently dubbed in Swedish and Russian. Its special effects were created by Derek Meddings. The film's theme song, "Mio My Mio", was composed by two former ABBA members, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and performed by the Swedish band Gemini.
Released in 1987, the film saw Nicholas Pickard's debut as an actor and marked Christian Bale's first appearance in a feature film. It won the Cinekid Film Award in Amsterdam, while its theme song became a top three hit in Sweden. However, Swedish reviewers received the film unfavorably, criticizing it as a poor adaptation of Lindgren's novel.