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Mio in the Land of Faraway, the Glossary

Mio in the Land of Faraway (Mio min Mio; 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.^[1]

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1987 fantasy films
1987 multilingual films
English-language Norwegian films
English-language Soviet films
Films based on works by Astrid Lindgren
Films scored by Benny Andersson
Films shot in Crimea
Films shot in Highland (council area)
Norwegian fantasy adventure films
Norwegian multilingual films
Soviet fantasy adventure films
Swedish fantasy adventure films
Swedish-language films

ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Anchor Bay Entertainment

The revived Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company owned by Umbrelic Entertainment co-founders Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz.

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Anders Eljas

Anders Erik Gillis Eljas (born 15 January 1953 in Stockholm) is a Swedish musician, orchestrator and conductor.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.

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Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays.

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Benny Andersson

Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of ''Mamma Mia!'' and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he worked also as an executive producer.

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Björn Ulvaeus

Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA.

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Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

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Derek Meddings

Derek Meddings (15 January 1931 – 10 September 1995) was a British film and television special effects designer.

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Details (magazine)

Details (stylized in all caps) was an American monthly men's magazine that was published by Condé Nast, founded in 1982 by Annie Flanders.

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Dreamwatch

Dreamwatch was a British magazine covering science fiction and fantasy films, books and television programmes.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Eilean Donan

Eilean Donan (Eilean Donnain) is a small tidal island situated at the confluence of three sea lochs (Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh) in the western Highlands of Scotland, about from the village of Dornie.

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Empire of the Sun (film)

Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American epic coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Feature film

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.

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Geiger counter

A Geiger counter (also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation.

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Gemini (Swedish band)

Gemini are a Swedish brother and sister duo, consisting of Karin Glenmark and Anders Glenmark.

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Geminism

Geminism is the second album by brother sister group Gemini, released in 1987.

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Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio (Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation.

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Gunilla Nyroos

Gunilla Birgitta Nyroos (born 7 October 1945) is a Swedish actress.

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Igor Yasulovich

Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (Игорь Николаевич Ясулович (in Russian); 24 September 1941 – 19 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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Jinn

Jinn (جِنّ), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs.

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The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal and The Journal of the Society of Cinematologists) is the official academic journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (formerly the Society for Cinema Studies).

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Linn Stokke

Linn Sem Stokke (born 18 September 1961) is a Norwegian actress, author, singer and composer.

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Look-alike

A look-alike, double, or doppelgänger is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.

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Medievalism

Medievalism is a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.

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Mio My Mio (song)

"Mio My Mio" (Swedish: "Mio min Mio") is a song performed by Swedish group Gemini for the 1987 film Mio in the Land of Faraway.

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Mio, My Son

Mio, My Son is a children's book by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.

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Miramax

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow International Film Festival

The Moscow International Film Festival (Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál; abbreviated as MIFF) is a film festival first held in Moscow in 1935 and became regular since 1959.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is a non-profit organization of New York City area film enthusiasts.

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Nick Pickard

Nick Pickard is an English actor.

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Nordisk Tonefilm

Nordisk Tonefilm (Danish for 'Nordic sound film') was a Swedish film production company founded in 1930 as a subsidiary of the Danish film production company Nordisk Film Kompagni.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegian International Film Festival

The Norwegian International Film Festival (Den norske filmfestivalen or Filmfestivalen i Haugesund) is a film festival held annually in Haugesund, Norway.

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Pan flute

A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).

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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (film)

Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (in the UK, Ronja Rövardotter in Sweden, Ronja Robbersdaughter in the USA) is a Swedish fantasy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 14 December 1984, directed by Tage Danielsson, based on the 1981 novel of the same title by Astrid Lindgren, and adapted for the screen by Lindgren herself. Mio in the Land of Faraway and Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (film) are 1980s Swedish films and films based on works by Astrid Lindgren.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Sandrew Metronome

Sandrew Metronome is a Scandinavian film distribution company formed in the 1990s.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sergei Skripka

Sergei Ivanovich Skripka (Серге́й Иванович Скрипка; October 5, 1949 in Kharkiv) is a Soviet and Ukrainian conductor, and a People's Artist of Russia, conductor of the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stig Engström (actor)

Stig Engström (born 14 January 1942) is a Swedish actor.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Susannah York

Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress.

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Sverre Anker Ousdal

Sverre Anker Ousdal (born 18 July 1944) is a Norwegian retired actor.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedish Film Institute

The Swedish Film Institute (Svenska Filminstitutet) (SFI) is a statutory body located in Stockholm, Sweden that supports the Swedish film industry.

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Swedish krona

The krona (plural: kronor; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the currency of the Kingdom of Sweden.

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Swedish language

Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.

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The Brothers Lionheart (film)

The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a Swedish fantasy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 23 September 1977, directed by Olle Hellbom and based on the 1973 book of the same name, written by Astrid Lindgren. Mio in the Land of Faraway and the Brothers Lionheart (film) are films based on Swedish novels, films based on fantasy novels and films based on works by Astrid Lindgren.

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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 reference work covering fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant.

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The NeverEnding Story (film)

The NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) is a 1984 fantasy film, co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Mio in the Land of Faraway and the NeverEnding Story (film) are films based on fantasy novels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mio_in_the_Land_of_Faraway

Also known as Land of Far Away, Land of Faraway, Mio min Mio (film), Mio moy Mio, Mio, moy Mio, The Land of Far Away, The Land of Faraway.

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Mio in the Land of Faraway, the Glossary

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See also

1987 fantasy films

1987 multilingual films

English-language Norwegian films

English-language Soviet films

Films based on works by Astrid Lindgren

Films scored by Benny Andersson

Films shot in Crimea

Films shot in Highland (council area)

Norwegian fantasy adventure films

Norwegian multilingual films

Soviet fantasy adventure films

Swedish fantasy adventure films

Swedish-language films

References