Pestalozzis Berg

Pestalozzis Berg

🎞️ Movie 119 min DE
โ˜… 5.4 /10 1989

It is difficult these days to imagine that elementary school education was instituted by anyone at all. In fact, Swiss experimental educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) laid the groundwork for universal elementary school education and developed many of the educational theories and techniques in use even in the present day. This film focuses on a critical period in Pestalozzi's development of his educational theories, when he was running a boarding school in a disused convent for impoverished village children in the French part of Switzerland. At the time, Pestalozzi (Gian Maria Volonte) was regarded as a strange renegade, and it had only been with great difficulty that he was able to persuade even the poorest parents that his efforts to feed, clothe, and educate their children might be beneficial to them. Most of the story is told in flashbacks, narrated by one of his friends and supporters.

Cast

Gian Maria Volontè
Gian Maria Volontè
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Rolf Hoppe
Rolf Hoppe
Zehender
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Heidi Züger
Mädi
Christian Grashof
Christian Grashof
Zschokke
Michael Gwisdek
Michael Gwisdek
Perrault
Corinna Harfouch
Corinna Harfouch
Juliette Benoit
Silvia Jost
Silvia Jost
Magd in Stans
Angelica Ippolito
Angelica Ippolito
Anna Pestalozzi
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Peter Wyssbrod
Hofstetter
Käthe Reichel
Käthe Reichel
Köchin
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Heinz Reber
Composer
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Jürgen Lenz
Cinematographer