Pestalozzis Berg (1989)

Drama

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.

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Runtime: 119 mins Rating: 5.0

Cast

Corinna Harfouch

Juliette Benoit

Michael Gwisdek

Perrault

Rolf Hoppe

Zehender

Christian Grashof

Zschokke

Gian Maria Volonté

Pestalozzi

Käthe Reichel

Alte Köchin

Heidi Züger

Isolde Barth

Rosalia

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Crew

Jürgen Lenz

Cinematography

Peter Schneider

Writer

Peter von Gunten

Director

Peter von Gunten

Writer

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Pestalozzis Berg (1989)

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