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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1990 - 28 July.5 August

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THE MIRACLE IN VALBY

Category: Edition 1990

Synopsis
14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center. Via radio he is in contact with his father, who works at a big ship at the other side of the globe. One day the radio communication is suddenly interrupted by something which sounds like a Latin mass. In school Sven attends a lesson about radio-astronomy. The teacher explains that astronomers can receive radio waves that are thousand years old. Sven understands that the Latin mass he heard was transmitted to him from another age. He gets curious and starts making experiments by connecting his radio kit to bigger aerials. When he sits in the caravan together with his friends Bo and Petra, they not only hear the Latin mass on his radio, but the whole caravan is turned into a time-machine that brings them to the Middle Ages. They get in trouble with some warriors, who capture Petra, while Sven and Bo escape with the help of their time-machine. The two boys have to go back to the ...

Original Title Miraklet i Valby
Italian Title IL MIRACOLO DI VALBY
Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 80'
Production Year 1989
Nationality Denmark, Sweden
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Screenplay Åke Sandgren, Stig Larsson
Music Roxette, Per Gessle, Wlodek Gulgowski
Main cast Jakob Katz, Troels Asmussen, Lina Englund

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Åke Sandgren was born on May 13, 1955 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden. He is a director and writer, known for Miraklet i Valby (1989).