Heidi (2015, film)

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Movie
Original title Heidi
Country of production Switzerland , Germany
original language Swiss German ,
German , Romansh
Publishing year 2015
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Alain Gsponer
script Petra Volpe
production Reto Schärli ,
Lukas Hobi ,
Uli Putz ,
Jakob Claussen
music Niki Reiser
camera Matthias Fleischer
cut Michael Schaerer
occupation

Heidi is a film by Alain Gsponer from the year 2015 , based on the novel by Johanna Spyri . The cinema release in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany was on December 10, 2015, in French -speaking Switzerland it was released on February 3, 2016.

The film was sold in a total of 25 countries.

action

The orphan girl Heidi is brought by his aunt Dete to her shy grandfather, the Alpöhi (in the German version Almöhi), in the Swiss mountains, where she is to live from now on. Heidi quickly finds her way around the grandfather's hut and slowly wins the affection of the lonely old man. She loves to spend her time with Peter the goat: together they tend the goats and roam the alpine meadows.

Heidi's aunt Dete appears on the alp and informs the alpine boy that Heidi should go to a noble family in Frankfurt. Against her grandfather's wishes, she takes Heidi with her and brings her to Frankfurt. She is supposed to serve the paralyzed Klara as a playmate in the Sesemann family, learn to read and write with a strict nanny, Miss Rottenmeier, and learn to read and write with a tutor. Heidi and Klara become good friends. Mr. Sesemann and the servant Sebastian also take Heidi into their hearts, but Heidi longs to go back to the mountains.

Grandmother Sesemann understands Heidi's grief. When the girl begins to sleepwalk from homesickness, she convinces her son to send Heidi back to the mountains. Sebastian accompanies Heidi back to Switzerland. Everyone is happy to have Heidi back there. In winter she and Alpöhi move down to Dörfli, where Heidi goes to school and teaches Peter the goat to read. In spring Klara comes to visit with her grandmother. Peter is jealous because Heidi apparently only has eyes for Klara and therefore pushes Klara's wheelchair down the mountain. As a result, he manages, unplanned, that Klara learns with Heidis and his help to stand and walk again on her own two feet. Father and grandmother Sesemann are overjoyed when they come to pick up Klara and Klara walks towards them on her own two feet. The film ends with shots of Heidi running happily across alpine meadows.

actor

Around 500 Graubünden children were cast for Heidi and Peter the goat . Nine-year-old Anuk Steffen from Chur and fourteen-year-old Quirin Agrippi from Pontresina , both of whom were in front of the camera for the first time, were selected. Twelve-year-old Isabelle Ottmann played the role of Klara.

Regarding his role as Alpöhi, Bruno Ganz said : “ Heidi is a national epic in Switzerland and there was no reason that I would say no to it. That wasn't possible, not even before myself, and then I found the role interesting ». He also said: “Life in these areas was extremely brutal at the end of the 19th century when Spyri wrote the novels. But in this film you will learn a little more from it than in the black and white film from the 1950s , which, mind you, was very beautiful. "

production

Latsch, the Heidi village
The alpine huts

Filming began on August 19, 2014. It lasted around 50 days until the end of October and took place in Graubünden , Munich , Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt . The Swiss part was shot mainly in Sufers in the Rheinwald and in Latsch in the Albula Valley , where the film from 1952 was made. Post-production took place in 2015. The budget for the film was around CHF 8.5 million. According to producer Lukas Hobi, the shoot should actually take place in the area Heidi came from, i.e. in the Bündner mountains or the Sarganserland. They consciously orientated themselves on the film version from 1952 and chose roughly the same village as the filming location.

Parts of the novel are set in Frankfurt in the 19th century. The old town of Frankfurt was once one of the largest and best preserved medieval old towns in Europe. Since this was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War and, according to producer Jakob Claussen, "today's city of Frankfurt no longer provides a corresponding historical picture", other locations had to be found. As in the film Das kleine Gespenst , where filming locations with historical buildings were used, they have now found what they are looking for in Quedlinburg , Halberstadt and Altenburg .

Although no dates were given in the novels, emphasis was placed on authenticity and attention to detail in the make-up, equipment and costumes. It was based around the year 1860. “In the village of Latsch, we have done everything to eliminate any modern elements, some of which were created in the early 20th century. The viewer should have the feeling of being able to travel back in time to the Swiss mountains, but also to Frankfurt. "

criticism

The film service judged that the film was waiting "with sumptuously beautiful landscape shots and a good acting ensemble, among which the young actress of the title character stands out". However, this could not prevent his "content apart from conjuring up a hopelessly kitschy natural idyll, no narrative sparks from the material". It is also noticeable that "all Christian accentuated narrative elements of the templates are rigorously ignored".

Der Spiegel wrote: “Director Alain Gsponer and screenwriter Petra Volpe have made an unusual Heimatfilm - a Heimatfilm for children, the homeland, undogmatic, unpatriotic and not a bit agronomically located, where Pliny the Elder supposedly already did: Home is where your heart is. Heidi's heart, despite the many childhood trauma, neither broken nor particularly heavy, flies to her misanthropic grandfather (Bruno Ganz), who represents the mountains. [...] Gsponer and Volpe have seriously taken on the subject, despite its cheerful, naive, honest and old-fashioned aftertaste resulting from the many adaptations. And brought it back to the great drama it contains: How can Heidi, the free spirit, defend herself against the petty-bourgeois narrowness of society? "

At the German Film Awards 2016 , Gsponer's "Heidi" film was awarded as the best children's film.

As part of the Children's Film Days in the Ruhr Area 2016, the film was awarded the Emo (Best Actress) and Emmi (Best Film).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Heidi . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 618 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Heidi . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed December 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Heidi cineman.ch , accessed on December 28, 2015
  5. ↑ http://www.ffa.de/download.php?f=d430412de266c75dd47d2bfc9b22f1a7&target=0 FFA funding 2016
  6. ↑ Graubünden Exclusive, Summer 2015 edition.
  7. ↑ Alm-Öhi Bruno Ganz: Sometimes children annoy me. In: bz-berlin.de. BZ , December 9, 2015, accessed December 22, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b The world of film locations: Heidi. In: filmtourismus.de. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Heidi (2015). Film service , accessed on December 16, 2015 (short review).
  10. ↑ Jenni Zylka: Heidi (2015). Der Spiegel , accessed on December 22, 2015 (short review).
  11. ^ German Film Prize in Berlin: "Heidi" receives Lola for best children's film . NZZ Feuilleton: Cinema, May 27, 2016