Movie
Mio in the Land of Faraway
Overview
Under the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-08-18
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Family, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Nordisk Tonefilm, Gorky Film Studios, Svenska Filminstitutet, Norway Film Development, Sovinfilm, Taurus Film, Miramax
- Country
- Norway, Soviet Union, Sweden
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Nick Pickard as Mio / Bosse
- Christian Bale as Jum-Jum / Benke
- Timothy Bottoms as The King
- Christopher Lee as Kato
- Susannah York as The Weaver Woman
- Sverre Anker Ousdal as The Swordmaker
- Gunilla Nyroos as Aunt Edna
- Igor Yasulovich as Eno / Carpetbeater
- Lyubov Germanova as Jum-Jum's Mother
- Linn Stokke as Mrs. Lundin
- Geoffrey Staines as The Spirit
- Andrei Petrov as Jiri
Crew
- Vladimir Grammatikov - Director
- William Aldridge - Writer
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