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Children of the Open Road
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.
Featured Crew
Cast
![Jasmin Tabatabai](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//dndUImgq5o664IzodTpK9lngzQY.jpg)
![Andrea Eckert](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//4O1mg7OTD2P7oVKIqfJeiLmJq6B.jpg)
![Hans-Peter Korff](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//icvFtJ8Hh3KytL9lqHBZApRkIh.jpg)
![Nina Petri](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//pw6sA1kMJsJe8cSutLCJCFfZSX0.jpg)