"Heidi" is an Austrian German-language 90-minute movie from 1965, so this one had its 50th anniversary last year. It was directed by the prolific Werner Jacobs and the script is of course based on Johanna Spyri's famous novel about a young girl. This girl has to move from the mountains to the city and manages to make most people around her happy, even help wheelchair-bound Klara in recovering, but she loses her joy and finally gets back to where she belongs: the mountain-side. There was a recent film starring Bruno Ganz and this one was also good just like this one here. It's not really one of the performances that stands out in this fairly old film, it's more a combination of everything. The performances are good, the story is fun to watch even if you know what will happens and the sets and cinematography are convincing too. It should not be taken for granted that this is a color film as many 1960s films from Germany and Austria were still black-and-white, but in this case it really helps a lot as the Heidi story is one that lives a lot through what we see, be it either the beautiful mountains or minor aspects, like the girls' hair colors. Here, for a change Heidi is blonde and Klara has dark hair. Many actors in here (May, Prack, Knuth) were really prolific, but for Eva Maria Singhammer, it should have stayed the only performance and she lived a "normal" life, is around the age of 60 now. It was a good watch. I recommend it and for Heidi lovers, I would almost call it a must-see.
Review of Heidi
