Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame

2018

27 min

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In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.

Budget

$5,000

Genre

Documentary

Director

David Henzen

Country

Switzerland

Cast & Crew

Hans Fässler

Lukas Preiswerk

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Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.

  • Hans Fässler

  • Lukas Preiswerk

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