Fire and Ice (1986 film)

Fire and Ice (German: Feuer und Eis) is a 1986 German sports film directed by Willy Bogner.

Fire and Ice
German	Feuer und Eis
Directed by	Willy Bogner, Jr.
Written by	Willy Bogner, Jr.
Narrated by	John Denver (English) Emil Steinberger (German)
Cinematography	Peter Rohe Willy Bogner, Jr.
Music by	Gary Wright
Distributed by	Neue Constantin
Release date	January 16, 1987 (1987-01-16)
Country	Germany
Box office	1.5 million admissions (Germany)

Plot

John (John Eaves) and Suzy (Suzy Chaffee) meet while skiing in Aspen, Colorado. They run into each other again in New York and John follows her around the country.

Cast

In alphabetical order

• Kelby Anno as Wind Surfer
• Philippe Bernard as Hangglider
• Scott Brooksbank as Skier
• Jan Bucher as Skier
• Suzy Chaffee as Suzy
• John Denver as Narrator (voice)
• John Eaves as Skier
• Masayoshi Hija as Cowboy
• Wolfgang Junginger as Skier
• Suzy Kay as Skier
• Wong Kong as Cowboy
• Gianfranco L'Amore as Crazy Skier
• Steve Link as Snow Surfer
• Ann McIntire as Skier
• Kathy Pelowski as Waitress
• Bob Salerno as Skier
• Jan Schwartz as Skier
• Matt Schweitzer as Wind Surfer
• Tom Sims as Snow Surfer
• Mike Waltze as Wind Surfer
• Jennifer Wilson as Ribbon Dancer

Production

While the movie has a plot, it is essentially irrelevant. The movie contains mainly freestyle skiing scenes with Willy Bogner as director and cameraman. John Denver does the voiceover narration for the English-language version, Emil Steinberger for the German version. Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains snowboarding, hanggliding and windsurfing scenes with sports talents Gianfranco L'Amore, Jan Bucher and Mike Waltze. Marietta Waters performed the title track Fire and Ice. With Fire and Ice, Bogner won the Bavarian Film Awards (Special Prize) in 1986, and a Bambi in 1985. Bogner directed a kind of sequel in 1990, named Fire, Ice and Dynamite.

Reception

The film was the fourth highest-grossing German film in West Germany for the year with admissions of 1,496,743.

External links

• Fire and Ice at IMDb