Based on a 1956 poem by Swedish writer Harry Martinson. The epic, book-length poem has 103 cantos.
There is a 1960s version of the story, based on the same poem by Harry Martinson, adapted by Arne Arnbom.
The film premiered at TIFF (Toronto international Film Festival) in Canada in September 2018.
The main character, Mimaroben, has only a job title for a name. In this case, "mima," the machine's name means "mime" or "pantomime," and "roben" means to dress. Essentially, she is the mima-dresser.
The new word "Aniara" strictly poet Harry Martinson's own invention. He supposedly came up with the word to mean the "name for the space in which the atoms moves" while reading astronomer Arthur Eddington.