Mio in the Land of Faraway

Mio, my Mio is a fantasy adventure film by Russian director Vladimir Grammatikov from 1987 based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren. He was in a co-production between the former Soviet Union, Sweden and Norway and conforms essentially to the original novel. The main roles include the 13 -year-old Christian Bale in his first feature film and to see Christopher Lee as the evil Knight Kato.

The original title is Mio, min Mio ( Swedish) or Мио, мой Мио (Russian ), the international rental was under the English title Mio in the land of far away.

The film had to see its world premiere in July 1987 at the Moscow Film Festival and was from March 10, 1988 in the cinemas of the Federal Republic as well as from 7 April, 1989 in the cinemas of the GDR.

Action

The nine- year-old orphan boy bosses, actually Bo Wilhelm Olsson, lives in Stockholm with his uncle and his aunt, his mother died at his birth. However, both mistreat him why he uproots one day. As he passes the shop of Mrs. Lundin, this gives him an apple and asks him to throw a postcard in the mail box. When he sits down on a park bench, turned the apple in gold, and rolled to an old wine bottle. From this he frees a spirit of him in the country outside ( DDR Synchro: Country remotely ) entrains. You fly past the stars until they reach a green island, where bosses is already expected from his father. It turns out that this is the king of this country and bosses actually called Mio. He also gets a horse called Miramis and a friend, Jum Jum - a personification of his earthly friend Benka. Both succeed, the evil knight Kato, who has a heart of stone to rid the country. Along the way they encounter children of pastors who give them the bread that satisfies every hunger. Furthermore you will get a weaver a cloak that makes you invisible and a sword smith a sword that can cut stones. After they killed Kato, the children are exempt, the Kato had kidnapped. All healthy return back to the land outside.

Instrumentation and synchronization

From the film two German cut and dubbed versions, one in Germany and one in the GDR. Emerged The FRG version shows the opening and closing credits moving wallpapers, while the GDR version showed only a still picture. When you start to land the distance of the title song of Gemini was played in Germany version, while in the GDR version of the instrumental version was played. The West German version is dubbed in Dolby Surround, the GDR version in mono.

Actor and voice actor

Background

  • The title music was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the two male members of ABBA. Interpreted the title of Gemini, a successor group ABBA.
  • Sir Christopher Lee said to his role as Kato: "I love fairy tales, more so I accepted this role with thanks ."
  • For Christian Bale, it was the second film before his Hollywood career.
  • Original Air Date on German television: The East German television aired the first film in the original Russian with subtitles in " For friends of the Russian Language".

Differences from the book

  • The man of Edla aunt, uncles Sixton appeared in the movie itself on not. It's just to hear his voice.
1987 in film Screenplay Film score Mio, My Son East Germany Michael Chevalier Gemini (Swedish band) Deutscher Fernsehfunk
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