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.
as Pestalozzi
as Zehender
as Mädi
as Zschokke
as Perrault
as Juliette Benoit
as Magd
as Anna Pestalozzi
as Hofstetter
as Alte Köchin
as Rosalia
as Büttel
