Alpine Fire
7.0
“a story of love without bonds.”
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.
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Cast
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Thomas Nock
Der Bub
Also in
Gemini: The Twin Stars
Kiss Me
Johanna Lier
Belli
Also in
Männer auf Rädern
Always & Forever
Dorothea Moritz
Mutter
Known for
The Tunnel
Rolf Illig
Vater
Known for
Land of Silence and Darkness
Tilli Breidenbach
Großmutter
Also in
Hardness 10
Santa Fe
Jörg Odermatt
Großvater
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Fredi M. Murer Director · Pio Corradi Cinematographer Helena Gerber Editor
United States release October 10, 1985 · Produced in Switzerland · Production Langfilm
Production
Walter Schnoch
Production
Langfilm
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Switzerland
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Languages
Original title
Höhenfeuer
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Switzerland · September 2, 1985
Theatrical
United States · October 10, 1985
Theatrical
France
April 2, 1986 · Theatrical
May 12, 2006 · Physical · DVD
January 16, 2024 · Physical · Blu-Ray
Germany
January 30, 1986 · Theatrical
Switzerland
October 10, 2019 · Digital
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