Children of the Open Road

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Jasmin Tabatabai

Jana Kessel

Age : 56 | Popularity : 7%

Andrea Eckert

Theresa Kessel

Age : 65 | Popularity : 7%

Hans-Peter Korff

Dr. Schoenefeld

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Nina Petri

Fräulein Roth

Age : 60 | Popularity : 8%

Wolf-Dietrich Berg

Heinrich Hottinger

Age : 59 | Popularity : 3%

Herbert Leiser

Paul Kessel

Age : 82 | Popularity : 3%

Mathias Gnädinger

Roger Kessel

Age : 74 | Popularity : 3%

Noemi Steuer

Andrina Kessel

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

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

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