 The film was a major success, becoming the highest-grossing 1984 film in Sweden, More than 1.5 million people attended its screenings in Sweden.Particularly, it was viewed as a children's film owing to the fact that various media houses made it appear as a children's piece.The New York Times, for instance, wrote, “ALL those kids in New York who have been longing to see a movie in the original Swedish can now throng to the 23d Street Triplex, where "Ronja Robbersdaughter" opens today”.