

119 minutes
3/17/1989
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.

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

Roger Jendly
Werner Riemann
Uli Eichenberger

Peter Freiburghaus

Heike Jonca
Norbert Klassen

Nikolas Lansky

Beatrice Palme
Karl-Ernst Sasse