The little girl who conquered the big screen

Heidi, that supernaturally joyful and optimistic Swiss icon, is back where she belongs: in cinemas. But after dozens of adaptations, from silent black-and-whites to manga, does the world really need another one?  “Well, the last big cinematic version that was internationally successful was back in the 1950s – two generations ago,” the film’s director Alain Gsponer told swissinfo.ch. “And the material is so universally rich that you could say that each generation needs its own Heidi!”  This isn’t Gsponer’s first dealings with Heidi, the unwanted orphan who is deposited with her misanthropic grandfather up a Graubünden mountain, is then sent to Frankfurt as a playmate for privileged but wheelchair-bound Klara before returning homesick to her grandfather and Peter the goatherd. Klara then joins her and starts walking again after breathing in the restorative Swiss mountain air. (This is possibly not a film for parents with young children in wheelchairs…).  As a student, …
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