Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
Run Time: 1h57m | Release: 01 Jan 1992
Production Countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
5 / 101 Vote Count
Overview:
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.
Cast Of - Kinder der Landstrasse
Crew Members
Jana Kessel
Theresa Kessel
Dr. Schoenefeld
Fräulein Roth
Heinrich Hottinger
Paul Kessel
Roger Kessel
Andrina Kessel
Wahrsagerin