Pippi in the South Seas
Pippi receives a message in a bottle from her dad. The message says that pirates in the town of Porto Piluse have imprisoned him, and they only feed him bread and water. Pippi, Tommy and Annika travel there to rescue him using, amongst other things, a hot air balloon with a bed attached in place of the basket, a home-made airplane, and a hijacked pirate ship.
The scenes from the pirate town were filmed in the Yugoslavian town of Budva, present day Montenegro. After that they shot the South Pacific scenes in Barbados. However, they built the pirates’ den at the Vaxholm Fortress - a historic fortification in the Stockholm archipelago! A large number of extras participated in the shoot, including the production team themselves. In the scenes filmed in Barbados the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who by coincidence just happened to be on the island, pops up playing a pirate.
“If you are very strong, you must also be very kind.”
The narrator in "Do you know Pippi Longstocking?"
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Fact
Astrid Lindgren in Germany
In 1949, the young German publisher Friedrich Oetinger was in Stockholm to meet the author Gunnar Myrdal. In a bookstore, he happened to hear about Pippi Langstrumpf. The rest is history – he requested a meeting with Astrid Lindgren and obtained a German option for the Pippi trilogy. Verlag Friedrich Oetinger in Hamburg still publishes all of Astrid Lindgren's children's books, and her great popularity in Germany remains intact. The film adaptations of her books were, in several cases, German co-productions, and they are still shown on German TV, especially around Christmas. Several of Astrid Lindgren's songs are very well known in their German translations, such as "Hey Pippi Langstrumpf!".