Heidi (1993)

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Movie
German title Heidi
Original title Heidi
Country of production USA
Austria
Luxembourg
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 190 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Michael Rhodes
script Jeanne Rosenberg
production Frank Agrama
Nick Gillott
Daniele Lorenzano
music Lee Holdridge
camera Dennis C. Lewiston
cut Randy Jon Morgan
occupation

Heidi is a family film from 1993 based on the novels of the same name by Johanna Spyri .

action

Tobias, father of Heidi, feels that his father has treated him wrongly and therefore wants to leave the Alm with his wife and Heidi, who is still a baby . At this moment a thunderstorm is approaching. He and his wife are killed by a tree that was felled by lightning. Heidi is saved by the forest workers and the priest.

Eight years later, Heidi is brought to her grandfather's alpine pasture by her aunt Dete, because she has found a job in Frankfurt am Main and wants to get rid of Heidi as soon as possible. The grandfather, who has completely isolated and withdrawn from the villagers, initially doesn't want to know anything about Heidi. It reminds him of the death of his son, for which he feels responsible. Heidi soon befriends Peter the goat, with whom she goes out on the mountain pastures every day. For Heidi there is nothing better than the mountains that she no longer wants to be without. Although the grandfather wants to evade his feelings, he can no longer hide how dearly Heidi is to him. As a sign of this, he carves a sculpture for her that shows the "Queen of the Mountains" and the alpine pasture.

One day, however, Dete reappears, who Heidi wants to take with him to Frankfurt to take her as a playmate to a girl named Klara. Klara is paralyzed and has asthma attacks . Although Heidi and Klara will soon become best friends, Heidi cannot get used to life in the city. Most of the others in the Sesemann household soon became very fond of Heidi.

Nevertheless, Heidi still has a great longing for the mountains. So she begins to sleepwalk and eventually gets sick. Mr. Sesemann also has to understand that Heidi has to go back. Heidi returns to the mountains overjoyed. Everyone is very relieved and happy about their return. The grandfather, however, first wants to chase Heidi away to protect himself from another loss until he realizes how much Heidi means to him.

Although the doctor comes from Frankfurt a little later to examine Peter's grandmother, she dies soon after, which affects Heidi very much. When Klara, her grandmother, Sebastian and Fraulein Rottenmeier come to visit her, grandfather and Peter are not at all enthusiastic about it, as they fear that they will take Heidi back with them. But Heidi realizes that she belongs in the mountains and only feels comfortable here. Klara is deadly unhappy about it and doesn't want anything to do with her anymore.

Then Heidi is in great danger and is saved by Klara and Peter. As if by a miracle, Klara can walk again through this experience and also sees that Heidi belongs in the mountains. Heidi is overjoyed and believes that nothing stands in the way of a carefree life in the mountains with her grandfather. But he says, hurt and aggressive, that she should disappear and go to Frankfurt. Disappointed and sad, Heidi goes to the train station with the Sesemanns. But at the last moment she realizes that Grandpa needs her. Heidi and Klara say goodbye to each other, no matter how difficult it is for Klara. Heidi immediately runs back to the Dörfli. When she arrives at her grandfather's upstairs and tells him that she loves him, he overcomes his facade and his pride, and Heidi lives happily ever after with him in the mountains.

Locations

Location of the recordings in the mountains: Ködnitztal with the Großglockner
Romanesque mountain church St. Nikolaus as the church of Dörfli

The film was shot in Tyrol , Salzburg and Carinthia . The church shown is St. Nikolaus from Matrei in East Tyrol . Depictions of the alpine pastures and mountain meadows were taken in the Ködnitztal east of Kals am Großglockner .

Award

  • 1994: Nomination for the Golden Globe in the Best Miniseries category

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literature

  • Johanna Spyri : Heidi. Heidi's apprenticeship and wandering years . With pictures by Hans G. Schellenberger. (Unabridged version of the original text from 1880.) Arena, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-401-05706-5

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