Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, Switzerland
Why tonight?
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
- friendship
- orphan
- family
- swiss alps
The bill
- Katharina Schüttler — Miss Rottenmeier
- Maxim Mehmet — Mr. Sesemann
- Hannelore Hoger — Grandmother Sesemann
- Jella Haase — Tinette
- Anna Schinz — Dete
- Peter Lohmeyer — Sebastian
- Lilian Naef — Barbel
- Monica Gubser — Grandmother
- Peter Jecklin — Pastor
- Christoph Gaugler — Herdsman
- Rebecca Indermaur — Geissenpeterin
- Directed
- Alain Gsponer
- Written
- Petra Biondina Volpe
Production
- Studio
- StudioCanal, Zodiac Pictures, Teleclub, Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion, SRF, ZDF
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
