History Literature / Heidi

* ''Heidi'', 1968 TV film starring Jennifer Edwards. Infamously known in the USA for the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game Heidi Game]]". [[note]]Its broadcasting interrupted the end of a football game, causing so many complaints that the network switchboard was shut down, which is the reason why sports games that go long ''always'' [[UsefulNotes/SportsPreemption override regular programming now]].[[/note]]

* ''Mad Heidi'', [[ExploitationFilm "Swissploitation"]] parody film project. By the producers of ''Film/IronSky''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Heidi is often seen going barefoot during the spring and summer months.

The novel's eponymous heroine is an orphaned Swiss girl who, at the age of five and out of necessity, is given by her Aunt Dete into the care of her grumpy grandfather, who lives as a recluse in the Swiss Alps. The grandfather, an embittered man commonly known as the Alp-Öhi, is not at all happy about this, but eventually Heidi's {{blithe spirit}} thaws the old man's heart. But the happiness of the two is not to last, when Aunt Dete, having received employment in the city of Frankfurt, returns to take Heidi with her to Frankfurt.

In Frankfurt, Heidi pines for the Alps, but she also finds a friend in Klara, the daughter of Aunt Dete's employer, Herr Sesemann.

* ''Heidi'', 1993 two-part TV-movie staring Noley Thornton, with Jason Robards as her grandfather and Creator/JaneSeymourActress as Fraulein Rottenmier

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Not abled, per se, but in the 1937 and 1968 films, Klara is wheelchair-bound due to a past injury (in the '68 version from the same boating accident that killed her mother) instead of illness, and it's only fear and doubt (encouraged in the '37 version by an [[AdaptationalVillainy especially villainous]] Fraulein Rottenmier) that keep her from trying to walk again until Heidi helps her.

** The 1968 film softens Fraulein Rottenmier (in sharp contrast to the Shirley Temple version - see below) and ultimately has her PromotedToLoveInterest with Klara's father.

** Fraulein Rottenmier in the book is an antagonist due to her strictness, humorlessness, and being an altogether stick-in-the-mud. However, there's no hint of ulterior motives, and she genuinely wants the best (as she sees it) for Klara and the family. In the Shirley Temple version, Rottenmeir wants Klara's disability to linger so she can keep a permanent position with the family (completely irrelevant in the original, were Rottenmier was always housekeeper and Klara suffers from ''never'' having been able to walk). She also tries to sell Heidi to the gypsies out of spite.
** In the Shirley Temple version, Aunt Dete becomes a villain who actively hates Heidi, stealing her away from her grandfather, and telling Fraulein Rottenmier she could sell her to the gypsies if she so desires.

* CuteKitten: Heidi and Klara like them and probably Sebastian too. Fraulein Rottenmeier, on the other hand, can't stand them. Justified in the 1968, 1993 and 2015 films, as she appears severely allergic to them (and animals in general in the '93 version; she sneezes like crazy when she encounters mountain goats in the second half).

* DisabledMeansHelpless: In most adaptations, Herr Sesemann and Fraulein Rottenmier react to Klara like this. Her grandmother on the other hand is aware of Klara's fragility but doesn't buy the helplessness angle.

** Fraulein Rottenmeier's treatment of the kittens and her abusive behavior towards Heidi is horrible. Dete didn't relish on her own behavior, unlike her.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: In the 1993 film, at least. Fraulein Rottenmier is portrayed by Jane Seymour, who in real life is a very classy, polite lady.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Klara does this in the 1993 film. Not only is she in a wheelchair, but she appears to have fragile lungs. This can cause her to experience what look like severe asthma attacks, which then causes Fraulein Rottenmier and the servants to rush to get her a breathing treatment. Even when these attacks are real, the servants and family (except Grandma) treat them as catastrophic and give in to Klara whenever it looks like she's having one. Klara catches on; from that point, it's hard to tell what's real and what isn't because she conveniently starts breathing heavily whenever Heidi or someone else mentions leaving.

* {{Sleepwalking}}: During her stay in Frankfurt, Heidi misses her home in the Alps so much that it causes nightmares, and eventually this. Fraulein Rottenmeier and Sebastian initially mistake her wanderings for a ghost.

** The 1968 film softens Fraulein Rottemier (in sharp contrast to the Shirley Temple version - see below) and ultimately has her PromotedToLoveInterest with Klara's father.

** The original book [[spoiler: hints that while serving in the army he nursed a close friend and officer who died under his care which left him heartbroken. Then ''Heidi's Children'' establishes that also during his time as a soldier and presumably after his friends death, he fell in love with and married a wealthy young woman and proceeded to bankrupt his (now deceased) parents and himself trying to please her. The couple separated, taking a son each, and he returned to Dorfli. Despite gossip he settled fairly happily, but a few years later his beloved son and daughter-in-law both died, Dete took their daughter and the village turned on him and said he deserved everything as punishment for what he'd done to his parents.]]

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Not ''abled'', but in the 1937 and 1968 films, Klara is wheelchair-bound due to a past injury (in the '68 version from the same boating accident that killed her mother) instead of illness, and it's only fear and doubt (encouraged in the '37 version by an [[AdaptationalVillainy especially villainous Fraulein Rottenmier) that keep her from trying to walk again until Heidi helps her.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The animated adaptations tend to soften Peter up quite a bit, making him more of an out-and-out NiceGuy or at least toning down his {{Jerkass}} moments.

* CuteKitten: Heidi and Klara like them and probably Sebastian too. Fraulein Rottenmeier, on the other hand, can't stand them. Justified in the 1993 and 2015 films, as she appears severely allergic to them (and animals in general in the '93 version; she sneezes like crazy when she encounters mountain goats in the second half).

** Averted by Klara and pretty much the entire Sesemann family, who are rich but pretty nice. Their head housekeeper, on the other hand, is ''not''. In the 1993 adaptation, Klara shows shades of being a RichBitch, but gets over it pretty quickly.

* AdaptationalJerkass: The two major movie adaptations make SpoiledSweet Klara seem like a SpoiledBrat who uses her disability, not necessarily as [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkAssery a reason to be a pain]], but certainly as a way to get attention and/or pity, as well as to manipulate any given situation. By the end she [[CharacterDevelopment gets better]], though.

* CuteKitten: Heidi and Klara like them and probably Sebastian too. Fraulein Rottenmeier, on the other hand, can't stand them. Justified in the 1993 film, as she appears severely allergic to them (and animals in general; she sneezes like crazy when she encounters mountain goats in the second half).

* ''Heidi'', 1993 two-part TV-movie staring Noley Thornton, with Jason Robards as her grandfather and Creator/JaneSeymour as Fraulein Rottenmier

* ''Heidi'', 1992 two-part TV-movie staring Noley Thornton, with Jason Robards as her grandfather and Creator/JaneSeymour as Fraulein Rottenmier

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Heidi in the sequels, although she's described as having black, curly hair in the original book.

* AdaptationalJerkass: The two major movie adaptations make SpoiledSweet Klara seem like a SpoiledBrat who uses her disability, not necessarily as [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkAssery a reason to be a pain]], but certainly as a way to get attention and/or pity, as well as to manipulate any given situation.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Why the Alm Uncle originally secluded himself on the mountain is an ongoing mystery. [[spoiler: The original book hints that while serving in the army he nursed a close friend and officer who died under his care which left him heartbroken. Then ''Heidi's Children'' establishes that also during his time as a soldier and presumably after his friends death, he fell in love with and married a wealthy young woman and proceeded to bankrupt his (now deceased) parents and himself trying to please her. The couple separated, taking a son each, and he returned to Dorfli. Despite gossip he settled fairly happily, but a few years later his beloved son and daughter-in-law both died, Dete took their daughter and the village turned on him and said he deserved everything as punishment for what he'd done to his parents.]]

* ''Mad Heidi'', 2020 [[ExploitationFilm "Swissploitation"]] parody film projecy. By the producers of ''Film/IronSky''.

Some of the [[AdaptationOverdose numerous]] adaptations:

Some adaptations:

* ''Mad Heidi'', 2020 [[ExploitationFilm "Swissploitation"]] parody film. By the producers of ''Film/IronSky''.

Some of the well known adaptations:

* ''Heidi'', 1968 TV film starring Jennifer Edwards. Infamously known in the USA for the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game Heidi Game]]". [[note]]It interrupted the end of a football game, causing so many complaints that the network switchboard was shut down, which is the reason why sports games that go long ''always'' [[UsefulNotes/SportsPreemption override regular programming now]].[[/note]]