In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.
Directed by Peter von Gunten
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Cast
Gian Maria Volonté
Pestalozzi
Rolf Hoppe
Zehender
Heidi Züger
Mädi
Christian Grashof
Zschokke
Michael Gwisdek
Perrault
Corinna Harfouch
Juliette Benoit
Silvia Jost
Magd
Angelica Ippolito
Anna Pestalozzi
Peter Wyssbrod
Hofstetter
Käthe Reichel
Alte Köchin
Isolde Barth
Rosalia
Mathias Gnädinger
Büttel
Roger Jendly
Werner Riemann
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