Pestalozzi's Mountain

Directed by Peter von Gunten

With Gian Maria Volonté, Rolf Hoppe, Heidi Züger, Christian Grashof and Michael Gwisdek

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.