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.
This is
Mad Heidi,
of which EL PAÍS premieres its Spanish trailer, the freak phenomenon of the season, a film shot in the purest spirit of
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 direction 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 a Hollywood star with
Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow
and
Tarzan .
, king of the jungle.
In this Switzerland, chocolate is used to torture and there is little trace of the protagonist of the novel by the Swiss Johanna Spyri, glory of the letters of her country in the 19th century, and who turned to Heidi (pronounced Aídi), diminutive of Adelaida , some of his childhood experiences.
Almost all the imagery that we associate with Heidi—the
Blanquita, Snowflake
or
Diana goats,
the St. Bernard
Niebla,
the billy goat
El Gran Turk
—actually comes from the 1974
anime
series , and does 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
bets more on 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.