Children of the Open Road (1992)

Original title

Kinder der Landstrasse

Directed by

Urs Egger

Genre

drama film

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells a fictionalized story about a Swiss foundation that forcibly removed children from their traveling Yeniche families. It follows the experiences of these children as they are placed into foster homes and orphanages.

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What happens

Children of the Open Road (German: Kinder der Landstrasse) is a Swiss feature/drama film that was produced in 1992. Its topic is the Kinder der Landstrasse foundation, active between 1926 and 1973, which controversially attempted to assimilate the itinerant Yeniche population of Switzerland by forcibly moving their children to foster homes or orphanages. The historical topic is presented in fictionalized account. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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