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Children of the Open Road (1992)

ALL 01/01/1992 (de) History, Drama 117 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1992
  • Production
    Panorama Films (CH), Lichtblick Film, Wega Film Vienna
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Kinder der Landstrasse
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Urs Egger

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Jasmin Tabatabai

    Jana Kessel

  2. Andrea Eckert

    Theresa Kessel

  3. Hans-Peter Korff

    Dr. Schoenefeld

  4. Nina Petri

    Fräulein Roth

  5. Wolf-Dietrich Berg

    Heinrich Hottinger

  6. Herbert Leiser

    Paul Kessel

  7. Mathias Gnädinger

    Roger Kessel

  8. Noemi Steuer

    Andrina Kessel

  9. Johanna Karl-Lory

    Wahrsagerin

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Casts : 9 , Crews : 11

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Children of the Open Road (1992) 117 Min

ALL 01/01/1992 (de)
History, Drama
  • Release 01/01/1992
  • Production
    Panorama Films (CH), Lichtblick Film, Wega Film Vienna
  • Original title Kinder der Landstrasse
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Urs Egger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Barbara Hennings

    Editor

  4. Johannes Bösiger, Peter Spoerri, Urs Egger

    Producer



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