Pippi on the Run
In the last film about Pippi that Olle Hellbom directed, Pippi on the Run, the child actors Inger Nilsson, Pär Sundberg and Maria Persson had all become older and taller. The film begins with Tommy and Annika tired of their parents nagging and wanting something exciting to happen during their summer break. They decide to run away from home and ask Pippi to join them. After Pippi has promised Tommy and Annika’s mum that she’ll take care of them, they leave. The adventure involves walking on ceilings and tightropes, a spell in prison, bull fighting, going down a waterfall in a barrel and driving a car fuelled by "Conrad’s Glorious Glue".
The film was shot in different locations around Sweden, including once more in Visby - the children dressed in sacks singing for money are standing on Hästgatan. Villa Villekulla had at this point been sold, and moved south of Visby.
“If you are very strong, you must also be very kind.”
The narrator in "Do you know Pippi Longstocking?"
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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!".