Matinee at the Pfortmühle

Myth of Gotthard – Pass of the Pioneers (Historical Film, Germany 2018) 150 years ago, in the autumn of 1872, construction began on the first railway tunnel through the central Swiss Gotthard massif. At that time, it was an ambitious project of superlatives. Just like the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which opened in 2016 and is currently the longest railway tunnel in the world at 57 kilometers. These highly ambitious human endeavors meet equally breathtaking wonders of nature in the alpine landscape. However, climate change is altering everything. And although humanity has maximally tamed this mountainous region, nature at St. Gotthard has not yet revealed all its secrets. Verena Schönauer tells the multifaceted story of humanity and nature at this fateful place in Switzerland with exquisite images.