Alpine Fire
1985 Swiss drama film
- October 1985 (1985-10)
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 until her father pulled her out of school, and the younger Bub, who is deaf and, although he works like a man, mentally childlike. Belli teaches him as the work his father asks him to do on the farm limits his ability to go to school. Part of his work is quarrying stones to build walls.
In high summer, Bub becomes frustrated when a power mower stops working and throws it over a cliff. Fleeing his father's anger, he takes to sleeping away from the house while continuing to break rocks.
Belli visits him and they sleep together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon their parents must know.
Cast
- Thomas Nock 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 at IMDb
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Golden Leopard winning films
- And Then There Were None (1946)
- Man About Town (1947)
- Germany, Year Zero (1948)
- The Farm of Seven Sins (1949)
- When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
- Hunted (1952)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- The Composer Glinka (1953)
- The Glass Wall (1953)
- Prince Bayaya (1954)
- Gate of Hell (1954)
- Wild Fruit (1954)
- Rotation (1954)
- The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
- Carmen Jones (1955)
- The Emperor's Nightingale (1955)
- Il Grido (1957)
- Ten North Frederick (1958)
- Killer's Kiss (1959)
- Il bell'Antonio (1960)
- Fires on the Plain (1961)
- The Winner (1962)
- Transport from Paradise (1963)
- Black Peter (1964)
- Four in the Morning (1965)
- Courage for Every Day (1966)
- Entranced Earth (1967)
- The Visionaries (1968)
- Charles, Dead or Alive (1969)
- Those Who Wear Glasses (1969)
- Three Sad Tigers (1969)
- No Path Through Fire (1969)
- Lilika (1970)
- Mujo (1970)
- Soleil O (1970)
- End of the Road (1970)
- On the Point of Death (1971)
- They Have Changed Their Face (1971)
- The Friends (1971)
- Private Road (1971)
- Znaki na drodze (1971)
- Bleak Moments (1972)
- The Illumination (1973)
- Tűzoltó utca 25. (1974)
- The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975)
- The Big Night (1976)
- Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
- The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
- The Herd (1979)
- To Love the Damned (1980)
- Chakra (1981)
- The Princess (1983)
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
- Alpine Fire (1985)
- Jezioro Bodeńskie (1986)
- O Bobo (1987)
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
- Schmetterlinge (1988)
- Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
- Accidental Waltz (1990)
- Johnny Suede (1991)
- Autumn Moon (1992)
- The Place on a Grey Tricorne (1993)
- Khomreh (1994)
- Raï (1995)
- Nénette et Boni (1996)
- The Mirror (1997)
- Mr. Zhao (1998)
- Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)
- Father (2000)
- Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001)
- The Longing (2002)
- Khamosh Pani (2003)
- Private (2004)
- Nine Lives (2005)
- Das Fräulein (2006)
- The Rebirth (2007)
- Parque via (2008)
- She, a Chinese (2009)
- Winter Vacation (2010)
- Back to Stay (2011)
- The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
- Story of My Death (2013)
- From What Is Before (2014)
- Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
- Godless (2016)
- Mrs. Fang (2017)
- A Land Imagined (2018)
- Vitalina Varela (2019)
- Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021)
- Regra 34 (2022)
- Critical Zone (2023)
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