Becoming Astrid

Alba August belongs to Scandinavian film royalty as the daughter of Danish director Bille August and Swedish actress Pernilla August. But the 25-year-old actress is becoming a star in her own right and is currently to be seen in the TV series The Rain and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Becoming Astrid, the biopic of iconic Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren is famous for her children’s stories such as “Pippi Longstocking” and “Karlsson-on-the-Roof”, but Becoming Astrid takes us back in time when she was 16 years old and still Astrid Ericsson living in a Swedish village. We meet her before she started writing fiction and just before she gets hired for her first job at the local newspaper in Vimmerby.