Mio in the Land of Faraway
| Mio in the Land of Faraway | |
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Swedish DVD cover
featuring 1987 promotional artwork. |
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| Directed by | Vladimir Grammatikov |
| Produced by | Ingemar Ejve |
| Written by |
William Aldridge Astrid Lindgren (novel) |
| Starring |
Christopher Lee Christian Bale Nicholas Pickard Timothy Bottoms Susannah York |
| Music by |
Benny Andersson Anders Eljas |
| Cinematography |
Aleksandr Antipenko Kjell Vassdal |
| Edited by | Darek Hodor |
| Distributed by |
Sweden: Sandrew Metronome United States: Miramax Films |
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Release date
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Running time
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99 minutes |
| Country | Sweden Soviet Union Norway |
| Language | English Swedish (dub) Russian (dub) |
| Budget | SEK 55,000,000 (est.) |
| Box office |
Sweden: SEK 17,799,205 |
Mio in the Land of Faraway (Swedish: Mio min Mio; Russian: Мио, мой Мио - 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 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.
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