Emil, the title character, is a prankster who lives on a farm in the district of Lönneberga (Swedish lönnar: maple; berg: hill, mountain), in Småland, Sweden. Emil i Lönneberga - Figurer.

Rymlig kasse för blöta handdukar till stranden eller till barnens alla leksaker.

Han heter Royne Karlsson, är 50 år, gymnasielärare och månskensbonde som hela sitt liv drömt om att bli kommunalråd, ”som Emil i Lönneberga”. The films about Emil were later edited together and in 1975 were shown as a television series simply entitled Emil in Lönneberga, with thirteen episodes.

Emil i Lönneberga is a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren, covering 12 books written from 1963 to 1997.

She appears, dressed in a red shawl, as a farmer’s wife on Vimmerby market. Weil wir in Deutschland schon einen Kinderbuch Helden namens „Emil“ (aus Emil und die Detektive) hatten, wurde der blonde Lausejunge kurzerhand „eingeMichelt“. 5-year-old Emil Svensson lives with his family on a farm called Katthult.

The Emil-film is the only one that Astrid herself participated in as an extra.