Children of the Open Road
1992, German. Directed by Urs Egger.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- German
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- Released
- 1 January 1992
- Original title
- Kinder der Landstrasse
- Country
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
- Written by
- Johannes Bösiger
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Children of the Open Road runs 117 minutes (1h 57m).
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Who directed Children of the Open Road?
Children of the Open Road (1992) was directed by Urs Egger and stars Jasmin Tabatabai, Andrea Eckert, Hans Peter Korff.