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Children of the Open Road

01/01/1992

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1hr 57min

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History

,Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Jasmin Tabatabai
  • Andrea Eckert
  • Hans Peter Korff
  • Nina Petri
  • Wolf-Dietrich Berg

    Director

  • Urs Egger

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Panorama Films (CH)
  • Lichtblick Film
  • Wega Film

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Switzerland

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Jasmin Tabatabai

Jana Kessel

Andrea Eckert

Theresa Kessel

Hans Peter Korff

Dr. Schoenefeld

Nina Petri

Fräulein Roth

Wolf-Dietrich Berg

Heinrich Hottinger

Herbert Leiser

Paul Kessel

Mathias Gnädinger

Roger Kessel

Noemi Steuer

Andrina Kessel

Johanna Karl-Lory

Wahrsagerin

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