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.
Storyline
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.
The Return
6.6
Return with Honor
6.1
Strange Object
6.0
Road of No Return
5.9
Maroun Returns to Beirut
6.3
Gabriel's Inferno: Part II
8.4
Return of the Killer Shrews
5.4
RETURN
6.9
Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel
6.7Return
6.5
Elyas
6.2
Return
6.5
L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach
6.1
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
9.0Return
6.5
True Fiction
6.3
Flow
8.7
The Return of La Llorona
5.8
Scooby-Doo! and the Safari Creatures
9.4
Return of the Gunfighter
6.1