That Boy Emil (2013)

That Boy Emil

4.5 60 mins Family 2013

Filmlance International PennFilm Studio SVT ZDF Bildmakarna Berg Salikon Film & Saltkråkan SF Studios

Director(s): Lasse Persson Per Åhlin Alicja Jaworski

‘E-e-emil!’ shouts father across the small farm in Katthult, the boy is up to his old tricks and will have to be banished to the woodshed. Except that Emil doesn’t see this as punishment – on the contrary: he locks the door from inside so that he can continue undisturbed to carve another of his wooden figures, of which he has a whole collection. His little sister Ida also wants to sit inside the shed, but she’s too well-behaved. This new adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s beloved tales from her book ‘Emil of Lönneberga’ portrays the sunny side of life in the country at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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