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Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)

Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)

Drama
Release Date: 1989, March 17
Directors: Peter von Gunten
Countries: Switzerland, Germany, Italy, East Germany
Production: Praesens-Film, Praesens-Film, Stella Film, Stella Film, Ellepi Films, Ellepi Films, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Corinna Harfouch, Mathias Gnädinger, Michael Gwisdek, Rolf Hoppe, Silvia Jost, Peter Wyssbrod, Christian Grashof, Angelica Ippolito, Isolde Barth, Heidi Züger, Käthe Reichel

Overview:

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.