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Heidi in the Mountains
JAPAN · 1974

Heidi in the Mountains

Isao Takahata
coming of age Swiss Alps family bonds rural life orphan protagonist
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Synopsis

Heidi (1974) Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao Takahata A feature-length film Heidi in the Mountains, aka The Story of Heidi, was edited from the series by Zuiyo (which by then was a separate entity from Nippon Animation, which employed many of the TV series' a

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