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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The first to bring Astrid Lindgren's books abroad was the publisher Damm & Søn in Oslo, with their Norwegian edition of "Pippi Longstocking" already appearing in 1946. This marked the beginning of a long-standing relationship. Today, most of her books in Norway are published by Cappelen Damm, a publishing house formed through the merger of Cappelen and Damm. Astrid's book adaptations into films also became popular in Norway, as did her famous songs. One of Astrid Lindgren's favorite books was "Hunger" by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun; she often mentioned it as one of her greatest reading experiences.