---
title: 'Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vladimir Grammatikov'
released: '1987-07-01'
runtime_minutes: 99
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Family'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'Sweden'
  - 'Norway'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mio-in-the-land-of-faraway-1987'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093543/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)

1987 · 99 min · Fantasy, Adventure, Family · Soviet Union, Sweden, Norway

Original title: Mio min Mio

## Synopsis

Mio in the Land of Faraway 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vladimir Grammatikov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-grammatikov)
- **Screenplay:** [William Aldridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-aldridge)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Anders Eljas](https://cinepixo.com/people/anders-eljas)
- **Producer:** [Ingemar Ejve](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingemar-ejve)
- **Director of Photography:** [Aleksandr Antipenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-antipenko)
- **Editor:** [Darek Hodor](https://cinepixo.com/people/darek-hodor)

## Cast

- [Andrey Petrov](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrey-petrov-2)
- [Christian Bale](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-bale) as Jum-Jum
- [Gunilla Nyroos](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunilla-nyroos)
- [Andrey Sergeyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrey-sergeyev)
- [Christopher Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-lee) as Kato
- [Geoffrey Staines](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-staines)
- [Susannah York](https://cinepixo.com/people/susannah-york) as the weaver
- [Igor Yasulovich](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-yasulovich)
- [Denis Bodrov](https://cinepixo.com/people/denis-bodrov)
- [Nick Pickard](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-pickard) as Bo Olsson
- [Lyubov Germanova](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyubov-germanova)
- [Linn Stokke](https://cinepixo.com/people/linn-stokke)
- [Anna Foght](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-foght)
- [Timothy Bottoms](https://cinepixo.com/people/timothy-bottoms) as the king
- [Stig Engström](https://cinepixo.com/people/stig-engstrom)

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