On this day in movie history – Aniara (2018 movie & books):

Aniara

directed and written by Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja,

based on the epic book-length poem Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem by Harry Martinson,

released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 7, 2018.

Music by Alexander Berg.

Cast: Emelie Garbers / Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Emma Broomé, Jamil Drissi, Leon Jiber, Peter Carlberg, Juan Rodríguez, David Nzinga, Dakota Trancher Williams, Otis Castillo Ålhed, Dante Westergårdh, Enzo Westergårdh, Elin Lilleman Eriksson, Agnes Lundgren, Alexi Carpentieri, Mattias Appelqvist, Unn Dahlman, Laila Ljunggren, Thomas Lundgren, Malin Olsson, Susanna Salonen, Cornelia Sjöblom, Oskar Snickars, Max Stenerudh, Markus Waltå, Carl Kumlin, Masoud Owji, Andreas Wicklund, Jacob Stefansson, Malin Friis, Jörgen Hallqvist, Tobias Cronwall, Pau Boluda Hernández, Mats Plyhr, Ida Sandberg, Rabie Jirjis, Inez Kontio, Nicole Ardizzone, Nicklas Dahlin, Mikaela Stenström, Vinicio Skoog, Hans Svensson, Tobias Sondén, Sylvia Kren, Rudy Lindberg, Nandor Ingevald Hegedüs, Emmelie Ginste, Irene Duckert, Jonas Larsson Grönström, Mattias Königsson, Pablo Salvador N.G.

Recommended reading:

Aniara:

An Epic Science Fiction Poem

By Harry Martinson.

Published by Story Line Press.

First published 1956.

ISBN-10: 1885266634

ISBN-13: 978-1885266637

Description:

Aniara is a great space epic and a story of an inner journey of the soul – at once a warning of despair in the age of nuclear weapons and ecological threats, and perhaps the fullest expression of Harry Martinson's lifelong project to show us man's attempt to see himself and his role in creation. Aniara was first published in 1956 and received a great reception. But it is perhaps only today that the verse epic fully emerges as one of the most artistically and intellectually challenging works of our time.

Aniara

By Harry Martinson.

Introduction by Tord Hall.

Translated by Hugh MacDiarmid & E. Harley Schubert.

Illustrated by The Voice of Nick.

Kindle Edition.

ASIN: B0BTJTQGDT

Published by The Voice of Nick.

Published 2023.

Description:

"Who could foresee that just this flight, all in the day’s work as it seemed, was singled out to be unique and doomed to bear us all away from Earth and Sun, Venus and Mars, and life’s entire environment?"

Featuring 11 beautiful illustrations and dozens of hours of behind-the-scenes videos documenting the artwork's creation.

Nobel laureate Harry Martinson's 1956 sci-fi epic, translated by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert. A passenger ship is lost in space during a routine journey, and its 8,000 inhabitants must somehow come to terms with their new life. What awaits them in the bitter Galactic night?