Heidi

The orphan girl Heidi (Anuk Steffen) grows up with her aunt Dete (Anna Schinz). However, when she gets a job in Frankfurt and can't take the girl with her, Heidi is taken to live with her reclusive grandfather (Bruno Ganz) on an alp above Maienfeld. The Alpohi, as they call the old man in the village, is not very enthusiastic at first, but gradually takes the cheerful girl to his heart. Heidi makes friends with a shepherd boy her age, Geissenpeter (Quirin Agrippi). With him, she climbs up to the alpine meadows where the goats graze and enjoys the freedom of the mountains. Then Aunt Dete reappears and takes the girl to Frankfurt against Alpohi's wishes. There she is to keep the paralyzed daughter Klara (Isabelle Ottmann) company in the noble Sesemann family. Heidi and Klara quickly become friends. A private tutor gives them lessons. Heidi learns to read and write. Mr. Sesemann (Maxim Mehmet), Klara's grandmother (Hannelore Hoger) and even the servant Sebastian (Peter Lohmeyer) also take Heidi to their hearts. Only the governess, the strict Miss Rottenmeier (Katharina Schuttler), sees it as her task to teach Heidi appropriate behavior. Instead, Heidi becomes increasingly homesick and begins to sleepwalk. Mr. Sesemann calls the family doctor, but he can't help Heidi. But Grandma Sesemann immediately knows what to do. She convinces her son to give the poor girl the only medicine that promises a cure: a return to the mountains.