Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
- Original title
- Mio min Mio
- Directed by
- Vladimir Grammatikov
- Genre
- fantasy film, adventure film, children's film
- Country
- Soviet Union, Sweden, Norway
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rated
- 6
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 100 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A lonely boy from Stockholm is transported to a magical fantasy land. He must free the kingdom from an evil knight's rule.
whimsicaldreamlikeadventuroushopefulotherworldlygentleepicnostalgic
What happens
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. In contrast, Swedish reviewers received the film unfavorably, criticizing it as a poor adaptation of Lindgren's novel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Pathfinder (1987)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.