Children of the Open Road 1992
6.8 / 10
Children of the Open Road
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.
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.
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... Jana Kessel
... Theresa Kessel
... Dr. Schoenefeld
... Fräulein Roth
... Heinrich Hottinger
... Paul Kessel
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Release Date:
Jan 01, 1992 (Austria,Germany,Switzerland)
Run Time:
1hr 57`
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Original Language:
German
Production Countries:
Austria,Germany,Switzerland
Status:
Released
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Children of the Open Road - Children of the Open Road
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... Director
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... Jana Kessel
... Theresa Kessel
... Dr. Schoenefeld
... Fräulein Roth
... Heinrich Hottinger
... Paul Kessel
... Roger Kessel
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Noemi Steuer... Andrina Kessel
... Wahrsagerin
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