Höhenfeuer (1985)
"a story of love without bonds."
Title: Alpine Fire
Original Title: Höhenfeuer
Release Date: 1985-09-02
Status: Released
Rating: 6.586/10 (from 29 votes)
Language: DE
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Walter Schnoch, Langfilm
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.
Cast
Thomas Nock
Der Bub
Johanna Lier
Belli
Dorothea Moritz
Mutter
Rolf Illig
Vater
Tilli Breidenbach
Großmutter
Jörg Odermatt
Großvater
