The Mountain Boy (Schellen-Ursli, 2016) is a timeless story about the hero of the most famous Swiss children's picture book, a mountain boy named Ursli, who lives with his parents, animals and best friend Sereina just above a small town in the Swiss Alps.
The boy from the mountain (Schellen-Ursli) by Xavier Koller is about a boy Ursli, who has a very special gift for animals, because he also understands them. When, at the end of summer, he and his family move to the village, where they take their crops on a horse-drawn cart, an accident befalls them and their entire harvest falls unhappily into the abyss.
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In order to survive the winter, they have to to borrow from the rich and evil village shop owner, and on top of that, Ursli has to give up her beloved goat to a rude merchant's son. And when the devil has young people, he has a lot of them. Ursli to celebrate Chalandamarz (a case of mountain ritual, during which children ring bells to chase away winter and welcome spring) receives the smallest bell and becomes the target of ridicule from other children. But he decides to take matters into his own hands and, in order to help his parents, sets out to find the greatest a bell that is hidden in a cabin on top of a mountain. And the adventure can begin.
Gallery - scenes from the film The Boy from the Mountain (Schellen-Ursli):
Comedy
The boy from the mountain
(Schellen-Ursli, Switzerland, 2016)
Direction: Xavier Koller. They play: Martin Rapold, Leonardo Nigro, Peter Jecklin, Marcus Signer, Andrea Zogg, Tonia Maria Zindel, Julia Jeker, Jonas Hartmann.
In the cinema from May 25, 2017.
