Alpine Fire

Alpine Fire (1985)

Höhenfeuer

a story of love without bonds.

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.

Date of release
1985-09-02
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (33)
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Drama
Director
Fredi M. Murer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Golden Leopard

Alpine Fire is a 1985 Swiss drama film written and directed by Fredi M. Murer. Set on a remote mountain farm, it follows the relationship between a deaf boy and his sister. Shot in the canton of Uri, it won the Golden Leopard at the 1985 Locarno International Film Festival.

Production

Murer originally considered Iceland as the setting, but the film was made in Switzerland. It was shot in the canton of Uri, with the main location at Wasserplatten above Silenen and additional filming at Mettener Butzli in the Schächental and at Wissiflue above Wolfenschiessen. Murer said he wanted to avoid postcard-like Alpine imagery and therefore kept recognisable mountain skylines out of frame.

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