Children of the Open Road [265867] Released: 1992-01-01 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 117 mins Popularity: 0.1807 Vote Average: 5 Vote Count: 1 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 [9] Jasmin TabatabaiJana Kessel Andrea EckertTheresa Kessel Hans Peter KorffDr. Schoenefeld Nina PetriFräulein Roth Wolf-Dietrich BergHeinrich Hotting Herbert LeiserPaul Kessel Mathias GnädingerRoger Kessel Noemi SteuerAndrina Kessel Johanna Karl-LoryWahrsagerin Trailers