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Pestalozzi's Mountain

6.5 119 mins Drama   1989
Praesens-Film   Stella Film   Ellepi Films   DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme  
Director(s): Peter von Gunten

Release Date: 17 Fri, Mar 1989

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.

Casts of Pestalozzi's Mountain

Gian Maria Volonté

as Pestalozzi

Rolf Hoppe

as Zehender

Heidi Züger

as Mädi

Christian Grashof

as Zschokke

Michael Gwisdek

as Perrault

Corinna Harfouch

as Juliette Benoit

Silvia Jost

as Magd

Angelica Ippolito

as Anna Pestalozzi

Peter Wyssbrod

as Hofstetter

Käthe Reichel

as Alte Köchin

Isolde Barth

as Rosalia

Mathias Gnädinger

as Büttel

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