Alpine Fire

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.^[1]

Plot

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Bub,who is deaf, and although he works like a man, he is child-like. Belli teaches him, and in his work, Bub can become frustrated. 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 because of 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 Knock as Bub
• Johanna Lier as Belli
• Dorthea Moritz as Mom
• Rolf Illig as Father

Reception

It won the Golden Leopard at the 1985 Locarno International Film Festival.^[2]

See also

• List of submissions to the 58th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Swiss submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Alpine Fire on IMDb