Children of the Open Road (1992)

In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.

Directing:
  • Urs Egger

Writing:
  • Johannes Bösiger

Stars:
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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  • Country: DE, AT, CH
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Runtime: 117
Hans-Peter Korff
Hans-Peter Ko...
Dr. Schoenefeld
Nina Petri
Nina Petri
Fräulein Roth
Jasmin Tabatabai
Jasmin Tabata...
Jana Kessel
Andrea Eckert
Andrea Eckert
Theresa Kessel
Herbert Leiser
Herbert Leise...
Paul Kessel
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