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"She’s the mischievous little red-haired Swedish girl with the pigtails. Since
1945, this waif with no mother or father has rarely been out of the bestseller
lists and continues to inspire musicals and movies. Heyday Films, the outfit
behind
Paddington and
James Bond, is now developing an English-language
adaptation of her stories.
What isn’t generally known outside her native Sweden are the circumstances in
which author Astrid Lindgren created Pippi during the darkest period of the
second world war, under the shadow of Hitler and Stalin.
“After I have worked so many years making the film, I am totally clear that
Pippi is a child of the war. She never would have existed if there were not
these terrible times,” Wilfried Hauke, the veteran German director behind new
docudrama
A World Gone Mad – The War Diaries of Astrid Lindgren (which will
have its international premiere early next year) tells me.
His film features three generations of the Lindgren family – the author’s
daughter, Karin Nyman, granddaughter, Annika Lindgren, and great-grandson,
Johan Palmberg. It also has reconstructions in which leading Swedish stage
actor Sofia Pekkari plays the author but her executors have made sure that
every word she utters is taken exactly from what Lindgren actually wrote or
said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
