Alpine Fire (German: Höhenfeuer) is a 1985 Swiss drama film directed by Fredi M. Murer.
[1] A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher until her father pulled her out of school, and the younger Bub, who is deaf and, although he works like a man, mentally childlike.
Belli teaches him as the work his father asks him to do on the farm limits his ability to go to school.
In high summer, Bub becomes frustrated when a power mower stops working and throws it over a cliff.
Fleeing his father's anger, he takes to sleeping away from the house while continuing to break rocks.