The Story of Heidi

Name: The Story of Heidi
Director: Isao Takahata
Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure
Released: 1979-03-17
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Kazuko Sugiyama, Kohei Miyauchi, Yoshiaki Nemoto, Hiroko Maruyama, Terue Nunami

1979

1h 47m

Animation Family Adventure

Director: Isao Takahata

Writers: Mamoru Sasaki, Hisao Ohkawa

Overview

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.