Children of the Open Road

Children of the Open Road (1992)


  • Genre: History, Drama
  • Release Date: 1992-01-01
  • User Rating: 5/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 57min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Panorama Films (CH)
  • Production Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
  • Director: Urs Egger
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Summary

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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  • Jasmin Tabatabai

    as Jana Kessel
  • Andrea Eckert

    as Theresa Kessel
  • Hans-Peter Korff

    as Dr. Schoenefeld
  • Nina Petri

    as Fräulein Roth
  • Wolf-Dietrich Berg

    as Heinrich Hottinger
  • Herbert Leiser

    as Paul Kessel
  • Mathias Gnädinger

    as Roger Kessel
  • Noemi Steuer

    as Andrina Kessel
  • Johanna Karl-Lory

    as Wahrsagerin
Directing Urs Egger Director
Art Kathrin Brunner Art Direction
Editing Barbara Hennings Editor
Costume & Make-Up Sabina Haag Costume Design
Production Urs Egger Producer
Writing Johannes Bösiger Writer
Camera Lukas Strebel Director of Photography
Production Peter Spoerri Producer
Sound Thomas Szabolcs Sound
Production Johannes Bösiger Producer
Production Peter Spoerri Production Manager

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