Heidi

Heidi is a girl of five. She is orphaned when her mother dies. Her aunt takes her to her grandfather. The grandfather lives alone in the Swiss mountains. He is a gruff man who keeps away from people. Heidi’s cheer brings life back into the house. The girl becomes friends with Peter the goatherd. The two of them spend two years up on the pasture. Then her aunt sends her to Frankfurt. There she is to stay in the house of Consul Sesemann. The idea is to have her properly educated. In time Heidi settles in. She becomes friends with Clara, the consul’s daughter. Clara cannot walk. The strict governess Miss Rottenmeier cannot cope with Heidi. Eva Maria Singhammer and Gustav Knuth take the leads in Werner Jacobs’s German film of 1965.