This is ‘Mad Heidi’, when the beatific shepherd girl is already an anti-fascist warrior

He no longer happily sings along the Swiss slopes of the Alps. The fault lies with a dictator, who has conquered power in his country and wants to impose a new world order. How will he do it? With manipulated cheese. Will he make it? It doesn’t seem possible, because part of the Swiss people have rebelled against him, led by a shepherdess, Heidi, who has learned to fight thanks to some ninja nuns. That’s how it is Mad Heidi, of which EL PAÍS premieres its Spanish trailer, the freak phenomenon of the season, a film shot in the purest spirit exploitation. After starting with a crowdfunding campaign that raised two million euros, Mad Heidi It has become the success of European horror and fantastic film competitions, and it opens in Spain on November 24. And beyond unknown names in directing and production, he hides one of his best assets in the actor who brings President Meili to life: the prolific Casper Van Dien, for a few seconds Hollywood star with Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow Y Tarzan, king of the jungle.

In this Switzerland chocolate is used to torture and little trace remains of the protagonist of the novel by the Swiss Johanna Spyri, glory of the letters of his country in the 19th century, and that turned some of his childhood experiences into Heidi (pronounced Aídi), diminutive of Adelaida. Almost all of the imagery we associate with Heidi—the goats Blanquita, Snowflake either Diana, the saint bernard Fog, the billy goat The Grand Turk— actually arises from the series of anime 1974, and they do not appear as such in the novel—which he wrote in 1870 for his son and originally published in two parts a decade later—by Spyri. Mad Heidi bet more for the tribute to Kill Bill, to movies with zombie Nazis or with the army of the Third Reich crouched on the dark side of the Moon, and ultimately for the pleasure of the fights for the fights. And, by the way, at the end of the footage a second part is announced: Heidi & Klara.

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This is ‘Mad Heidi’, when the beatific shepherd girl is already an anti-fascist warrior