Heidi

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Heidi! Get up!

I'll be right there.

Good morning, grandfather.

So, are you satisfied now?

The weather is beautiful.

The wind changed during the night.

The sky was full of stars.

Now go and get washed.

Otherwise the sun will be laughing at you.

Yes, yes.

Heidi!

I just wanted to say ...

You wanted to say 'good morning'?

No, I wanted to...

Good morning, Alp-hi!

- What do you want?

- Do you have to stay at home now?

- Do I? Who says so?

- The pastor said it.

- I'm ready!

- Do you have cheese and bread?

You're always thinking about food.

Go now!

And don't come home too late.

Hey, Alp-hi!

Nobody told you anything?

What? That you were coming?

I need to discuss something with you.

No time.

I have to work.

I was preparing my sermon on the way.

So?

Is it about charity?

No, about patience.

- Luke 21, 19.

- Why?

Isn't it written: 'In your patience

ye shall win your souls'?

Yes, yes.

May help you a bit?

Surely that's not why

you've come up here.

Doesn't matter.

So what do you want?

You have beautiful grass.

- Well, I'm here with a request.

- With a request?

The new bells will be

raised Saturday after next.

The children do it,

as is the custom.

Your grandchild is one of them.

Will you bring her down?

Heidi does not like to

go down to the village.

But in fall she will have

to go to school anyway.

She should have gone last year already.

No more excuses this time.

Who says so?

The law.

I was given the

child two years ago.

At that time, no one asked

if I wanted the child.

And now I decide what's

to be done with her.

You wouldn't start a fight

with the board of education?

They should leave my Heidi in

peace, she likes to be with me.

Here, take this.

Shall we?

It's far to go up there!

You promised that we would go on

the next sunny day. This is today.

I want to see where

the stream comes from.

We'll get a huge hunger

if we go up any further.

- I have some food left.

- But I have nothing left.

You can have the cheese.

And the piece of sausage?

You'll get that too, but

only once we reach the top.

I'm sorry, you can't have

the piece of sausage anymore.

But are we really going? Word of honor?

- If I say so.

- Hush! Look.

I know what you want of me, Father.

Please sit down.

You think these bells can

just ring in the reconciliation?

That's why you came to me

and not because of Heidi.

That's what I thought.

Why not? When I moved into the village,

the misfortune had already happened.

But the others?!

They claim that I did not quench

the fire in that windy night.

Out of arrogance and ruthlessness.

The embers supposedly

sparked out of my chimney.

And I was to blame that 5 houses

and the church tower burned down.

- Do you want some cider?

- Why not?

And yet I can swear that I did not

even have a fire going that night.

If only I had let the

other houses burn.

But I was the first one trying to

put the fire out. Me and my son.

He was killed while

trying to extinguish it.

Six months later his wife,

Heidi's mother, died out of grief.

Do you think I can simply forget?

And after all that, they

pursued me in justice!

I had enough of these neighbors.

That's why I came up here.

Believe it or not, but

I am as innocent as Job.

Without any misdeed. Innocent.

And here you think that

I'll go to church on Sundays?

It would not bother me.

Even if a biblical man like

yourself has no need for it.

- Think it over again...

- There is nothing to think over!

Just do it for the child!

- Goodbye, Alp-hi. The cider was good.

- Goodbye.

Here, now we are on top.

Give me my sausage.

But we can go still further up.

Higher up there's only rocks.

You can see that.

- And we can't climb up?

- No.

- Why not?

- Because there's only rocks.

- And where does the stream begin?

- This is the source.

- Then where's the beginning of the source?

- Give it a rest!

There, on the top of the ridge

is also a small lake.

- Have you ever seen it?

- Sure!

- So you can go up further!

- Will you promise me...

...that I'll get some of the sausage?

- But are we really going?

- Yes, we're going!

Here it is:

The beginning of the source!

Let's go to the lake.

How beautiful it is up here.

- Where does the water come from?

- From the sky.

But you won't make me go up there,

I'm telling you right now.

Where are we here?

At Echo Ridge. Listen:

Little swan, little bear!

- Grandfather!

- Heidi!

Stupid pig-cat!

You made the echo angry.

Give me your hand.

Let us sing something.

But a beautiful song.

The brook flows into the village.

And where does the water flow then?

Into the Rhine.

And the Rhine?

- Into Lake Constance.

- And it stays there?

- I don't know.

- Who knows then?

- The teacher. He knows it from books.

- Can't you read them?

- Not those.

- Why not?

You're so nosey!

Come on, let's go.

You have to know what you want:

Either you learn how to read, or...

... you can go up to the mountain.

You can't do both.

Then I don't want to

learn how to read. Never!

I'm sure the pastor means well.

But we two don't want to have

anything to do with the villagers.

Are the bells heavy?

It depends on the size.

Can the children even carry them?

Yes, if they work together.

And if a child is sick?

Then another one takes its place.

But if all are there already,

there's nobody left who can stand in.

Shouldn't we go down after all?

We could wait around.

We'll see.

Thanks, Grandfather!

Shall I sing something?

Yes.

- Hey mother, it's starting.

- Alright, then go.

I'm going to the village.

Are you sure you don't

want to step inside?

When it's over, I'll knock

at the door and wait here.

Hello.

Heidi! So you made it?

I can help with the bell. But

grandfather said someone must go with me.

I see!

Close the store already.

We want to be there

when our boys arrive.

He could have come for the entire day!

Let the people talk.

The hens can't do it!

That's right!

What is right?! How dare you!

Let him go.

One should take away the child.

He'll get what's coming to him yet.

Nobody will help him then.

All children to the rope.

But lift the rope only once

the bell founder says so.

Lift the rope!

What's wrong with that little one?

You don't want to join in?

It belongs to Alp-hi.

Come, you're part of it as well.

Come on, pull!

There's enough for all.

All will get a chance.

- Did you also get a sausage?

- Yes.

- But Brigitte, this is white bread.

- This is a soft roll.

- Do you want some?

- A little, but the rest is yours.

My late husband used to bring

me white bread every Saturday.

Didn't it get hard?

Later in the week I roasted it...

... on the fire.

- If I had money, I'd buy you...

- ... white bread daily.

- I can live without it.

- Are you coming to see us?

- Welcome!

Brigitte, your house

looks run down.

Grandfather! I got a sausage

and was allowed to pull too.

I know!

- Do you live...?

- Peter and I live here.

- And in the chambers up there?

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