Event

Heidi / 21st Berlin & Beyond

TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE AT THE CASTRO THEATRE BOX OFFICE. CASH ONLY PLEASE.

Frantz

Sun., Feb. 5, 2017 10:00 am
Castro Theatre, San Francisco

Northern California Premiere

105 mins. Switzerland, Germany (2015). DCP Projection. German and Swiss-German with English subtitles.

The most successful Swiss film in Swiss box office history and winner of the 2016 German Film Award for Best Children's Film: Orphan girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather, cut off from the outside world in a simple cabin in the Swiss mountains. Together with her friend Peter, she tends to grandfather's goats and enjoys freedom in the mountains to the fullest. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete. The idea is for her to stay with the family of the wealthy Mr. Sesemann and be a playmate for his wheelchair-bound daughter Klara, while also learning to read and write under the supervision of the strict nanny, Fräulein Rottenmeier. Although the two girls soon become friends and Klara's grandmother awakes a passion for her books in Heidi, her longing for her beloved mountains and her grandfather grows ever stronger.

Director: Alain Gsponer
Starring: Anuk Steffen, Bruno Ganz, Quirin Agrippi, Isabelle Ottmann, Anna Schinz, Katharina Schüttler
Screenplay: Petra Volpe
Cinematography: Matthias Fleischer
Editor: Michael Schaerer

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