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.

Anuk Steffen
as Heidi

Bruno Ganz
as Alpöhi

Quirin Agrippi
as Geissenpeter

Isabelle Ottmann
as Klara Sesemann

Katharina Schüttler
as Miss Rottenmeier

Maxim Mehmet
as Mr. Sesemann

Hannelore Hoger
as Grandmother Sesemann

Jella Haase
as Tinette

Anna Schinz
as Dete

Peter Lohmeyer
as Sebastian
Reno
> You can call her the daughter of the Alps. Not everybody knows Heidi. People are taking about their favourite versions, but for me this is the first film and I loved it. Now I'm not going to watch the other versions, because I think nothing would surpass this one. I'll stand by my statement til...