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Karin Nyman, Astrid and Sture's daughter, has criticized the film about her mother, stating that Astrid would have felt enormous reluctance for such a film, and that the period in her life, the relationship with Reinhold Blomberg, the son's birth, and foster home stay, was something private, which
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on 21 February 2018, and was theatrically released in Sweden on 14 September of the same year, as well as in Denmark on 31 January 2019.
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pays tribute to a beloved character's creator with a biopic that proves the story behind the scenes is just as timelessly engaging." On
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Children from all over the world write letters to Astrid Lindgren (Maria Fahl Vikander), which makes her dream back to her youth in
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Henrik Rafaelsen as Reinhold Blomberg, editor-in-chief of Vimmerby magazine, and father of her son Lars
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and Maria Fahl Vikander as young and elder incarnations of Lindgren, alongside
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she did not want to focus on. Nyman drew comparisons to other biopics, about
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2018 Danish–Swedish film directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen
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Her son spent his first years in a Danish foster family. At the
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Lars G Lindström, Maria Dahlin and Anna Anthony (producers)
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between Sweden and Denmark, the film is directed by
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Swedish
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Kim Fupz Aakeson
Alba August
Maria Bonnevie
Magnus Krepper
Trine Dyrholm
Björn Gustafsson
Nordisk Film
Det Danske Filminstitut
Film i Väst
Nordisk Film Production

Swedish
Danish
biographical
drama film
Astrid Lindgren
international co-production
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Kim Fupz Aakeson
Alba August
Maria Bonnevie
Magnus Krepper
Trine Dyrholm
Björn Gustafsson
68th Berlin International Film Festival
Småland
Alba August

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