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
Rolf Hoppe
Heidi Züger
Christian Grashof
Michael Gwisdek
Corinna Harfouch
Silvia Jost
Angelica Ippolito
Peter Wyssbrod
Käthe Reichel
Isolde Barth
Mathias Gnädinger
Roger Jendly
Werner Riemann
Uli Eichenberger
Peter Freiburghaus
Heike Jonca
Norbert Klassen
Nikolas Lansky
Beatrice Palme
Karl-Ernst Sasse