Heidi: Rescue of the Lynx

8/6/2025

Now this does get off to a distinctly ropey start with song called “Heidi” that we could probably have done without, but thereafter it’s actually a perfectly adequate little family feature. As per Johanna Spyri’s book, “Heidi” lives in the mountains with her kindly but grumpy grandfather and near her best pal, the goatherd “Peter”. When a family of peckish lynxes is caught trying to get onto the chicken coup, they are scared away and the community - egged on by visiting lumber entrepreneur “Schnaittinger” - set up traps for them. Luckily for one she names “Pepper”, “Heidi” rescues one and together with “Peter” goes up above the tree line to reunite it with its family. That is where she discovers the real intention of their new, unscrupulous, benefactor and so concludes that his similar pla