Robert Horton wrote:
Alpine Fire is as heady and intoxicating as the thin mountain air of the Alps in which it takes place. The entire film is set far above the rest of the world, and the isolated location influences both the characters and the film style.

The exact location is a lonely home pitched on the side of a mountain. Communication with neighbors is done with signs and binoculars; other people may be miles away, on the slope of the next Alp. The time is the present, but the home has no television or telephone, and it seems remote in many ways.

In this house live the elderly parents (Rolf Illig, Dorothea Moritz) and their two children: a daughter, Belli (Johanna Lier) and a son (Thomas Nock) called simply the boy.

The boy is deaf, temperamental and stunted in his learning. The early part of the film details his struggle with the world, and his fascination with ways of seeing; he uses mirrors, binoculars and various looking glasses to examine the silence around him. He becomes enraged when he spots his sister moving to the sounds of a transistor radio, which he immediately finds and destroys.

The girl is more conventional, but as winter approaches and the boy passes through stages of puberty, they both feel stirrings of sexual feeling, intensified by the cabin-fever situation.

Hoehenfeuer - Fredi M. Murer (1985) Blu 576p.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 58 min
Size: 	3.29 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	956x576 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 400 kb/s
BPP: 	0.258
Audio
#1:  	German 1.0ch FLAC @ 366 kb/s (Original mono (Swiss German))
#2:  	German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Fredi Murer (director) and Pio Corradi (image))

https://nitro.download/view/5594322F919D813/Hoehenfeuer_-_Fredi_M._Murer_(1985)_Blu_576p.mkv

Language(s):Swiss German
Subtitles:English, French, German

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This off-beat psychological drama by Sohrab Shahid Saless dissects German post-war society with a cutting edge. Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job and ensconces himself at home (preferably in the bathroom), refusing to say very much to anyone. His wife (Dorothea Moritz) is all the more upset at his behavior because on Sunday mornings he goes out into the street and yells at the top of his lungs for everyone to “get up.” Eventually, the hard-working wife who is also earning their support convinces Herbert to go to a clinic for treatment. But is it a clinic he needs? Or is Herbert rebelling against a society that is too ordered, too sterile, too buried in the monotony of routine?

Ordnung.1980.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
Size: 	918 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	640x512 ~> 682x512
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 038 kb/s
BPP: 	0.127
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/2D2461F6021A6AC/Ordnung.1980.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/D4D9CD77B41A11F/Ordnung.1980.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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