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The Story of Heidi
JAPAN · 1979

The Story of Heidi

Isao Takahata
orphans family relationships alpine setting coming of age isolation
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Synopsis

Heidi is five years old when her aunt Dete, who has raised Heidi since her parents' deaths four years earlier, takes the orphaned Heidi to live with her formidable grandfather in the Swiss Alps. The American feature-length adaptation of Heidi (1974), the Japanese anime series produced by Zuiyo Eizo.

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