Children of the Open RoadMovie
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.
About Children of the Open Road
Children of the Open Road is a 1992 history, drama movie directed by Urs Egger.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 57m, production credits from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, an original language code of DE.
The credited cast includes Jasmin Tabatabai, Andrea Eckert, Hans Peter Korff, Nina Petri. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
