Mio in the Land of Faraway

Mio in the Land of Faraway Swedish Mio min Mio Russian , 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 knights oppression.

The film opens in modern Stockholm. Orphaned by his mothers death and fathers disappearance, Bosse Nicholas Pickard suffers neglect by his guardians Aunt Edna Gunilla Nyroos and Uncle Sixten, as well as abuse from bullies. His best friend is Benke Christian Bale, whose father Bosse envies. Running away one night to seek his own father, Bosse meets the kindly shopkeeper Mrs Lundin Linn Stokke, who gives him an apple and asks him to mail a postcard. The postcard is addressed to the Land of Faraway, informing its King of Bosses impending journey there. After Bosse mails the postcard, his apple turns golden. Dropping the transfigured apple in shock, Bosse stumbles upon a genie Geoffrey Staines trapped in a bottle and frees it.It turns out that this spirit has travelled from the Land of Faraway to seek Bosse, and that the golden apple is Bosses identifying sign. With the boy clinging to his beard, the genie transports Bosse to the Land of Faraway and sets him down on Green Meadow Island. There, Bosse discovers that his real name is Mio, and that his father is the King Timothy Bottoms. Treated with love and indulgence, Mio leads an idyllic life on Green Meadow Island. He receives the horse Miramis as a gift from his father and makes friends with the local children. The latter include the farm boy Jiri, the shepherd boy Nonno, and the royal gardeners son JumJum, who turns out to be Benkes double. Together, Mio and JumJum learn to play pan flute music from Nonno. ........

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