Trivia

Author Astrid Lindgren did not care for this adaption, and once told Lasse Hallström, another director of her works, that "I will try not to like you. Because all of the directors I like only end up dead" (Refering to long-time collaborator Olle Hellbom, who adapted most of her books, as well as Tage Danielsson, who died shortly after completing Ronja Rövardotter (1986)), but said of Vladimir Grammatikov that he "isn't in any mortal danger." See more