Fire and Ice is a German feature length sports film directed by Willy Bogner in 1986.

Production and Team

While the movie has a plot, it is essentially irrelevant. The movie contains mainly freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...

 scenes with Willy Bogner as director and cameraman. John Denver

John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...

 does the voiceover narration for the English language version, Emil Steinberger

Emil Steinberger

Emil Steinberger is a Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor.He is well known as Emil in Switzerland and Germany for his acts on television in the 1970s and 1980s.- External links :* http://www.emil.ch...

 for the German version. Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains snowboarding

Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

, hanggliding and windsurfing

Windsurfing

Windsurfing or sailboarding is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually two to four metres long, powered by the orthogonal effect of the wind on a sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating universal joint and comprises a...

 scenes with sports talents Gianfranco L'Amore, Jan Bucher and Mike Waltze. Marietta Waters

Marietta Waters

Marietta Waters is an American singer and most known for her performance of "Destination Unknown" on the Top Gun soundtrack where she is credited by the stage name, Marietta...

 performed the title track Fire and Ice. With Fire and Ice, Bogner won the Bavarian Film Awards (Special Prize)

Bavarian Film Awards (Special Prize)

This is a list of the winners of the Bavarian Film Awards Special Award.1986 Willy Bogner1988 Vicco von Bülow1990 Dieter Geißler and all of his German Coworkers1991 Heinz Badewitz1996 Wolfgang Panzer...

 in 1986, and a Bambi

Bambi (prize)

The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...

 in 1985. Bogner directed a kind of sequel in 1990, named Fire, Ice and Dynamite

Fire, Ice and Dynamite

Fire, Ice and Dynamite is a German feature length sports film directed by Willy Bogner in 1990. It a sequel to Fire and Ice...

.

Plot

The two main characters John (John Eaves) and Suzy (Suzy Chaffee

Suzy Chaffee

Suzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s...

) meet while skiing in Aspen, Colorado

Aspen, Colorado

The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...

. They run into each other again in New York and John follows her around the country.

Cast

• Kelby Anno as Wind Surfer
• Philippe Bernard as Hangglider
• Scott Brooksbank as Skier
• Jan Bucher as Skier
• Suzy Chaffee
  Suzy Chaffee
  Suzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s...
  
   as Suzy
• John Denver
  John Denver
  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
  
   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
  Tom Sims
  Tom Sims, Born 1950, is a former World Snowboarding Champion , World Champion Skateboarder and founder of Sims Snowboards and Sims Skateboards...
  
   as Snow Surfer
• Mike Waltze as Wind Surfer
• Jennifer Wilson as Ribbon Dancer

External links

• Fire and Ice at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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