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German Film Festival: Heidi
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
FREE
This mini-festival, courtesy of the Goethe-Institut, showcases a fine selection of internationally acclaimed films in German with English subtitles including a suspenseful dramatisation of Germany’s postwar history, a haunting exploration of human survival in Fukushima, a refreshing new adaptation of a children’s classic – and much more.
Admission is free – just turn up early to secure your seats.
A huge hit with audiences and critics, this new adaptation puts the mud back into the Alpine pastures of Johanna Spyri’s classic novel. Our heroine Heidi is sent to live with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the mountains of Switzerland after the death of her parents. Her world is turned upside down again when her aunt dispatches her to Frankfurt to become a paid companion to Klara who uses a wheelchair. Of course everything works out splendidly in the end, but director Alain Gsponer allows us to see the hardships of nineteenth-century life as well as the magically invigorating properties of mountains and fresh air.
110 mins.
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