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Alpine Fire is a suisse film of genre Drama directed by Fredi Murer released in USA on 10 october 1985

Alpine Fire (1985)

Höhenfeuer

Alpine Fire
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Released in USA 10 october 1985
Length 2h
Directed by
OriginSuisse
Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.490713.490713.490713.490713.49071

Alpine Fire (German: Höhenfeuer) is a 1985 Swiss drama film directed by Fredi M. Murer. It won the Golden Leopard at the 1985 Locarno International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.



^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Synopsis

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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