Children of the Open Road

For the silent film, see Child on the Open Road.
Children of the Open Road
Kinder der Landstrasse
Directed byUrs Egger
Story byJohannes Bösiger
Produced byJohannes Bösiger
Helga Bähr
Veit Heiduschka
Alfred Nathan
Martin Schmassmann
Peter Spörri
StarringJasmin Tabatabai
Andrea Eckert
Mathias Gnädinger
Nina Petri
Noemi Steuer
CinematographyLukas Strebel
Edited byBarbara Hennings
Music byDetlef Petersen
Release dates
  • May 1992 (1992-05)
  • August 1992 (1992-08) (International premiere)
Running time
117 minutes
CountriesSwitzerland
Austria
Germany
LanguageGerman

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.

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