Children of the Open Road
| Children of the Open Road | |
|---|---|
| Kinder der Landstrasse | |
| Story by | Johannes Bösiger |
| Directed by | Urs Egger |
| Starring | Jasmin Tabatabai Andrea Eckert Mathias Gnädinger Nina Petri Noemi Steuer |
| Theme music composer | Detlef Petersen |
| Country of origin | Switzerland Austria Germany |
| Original language | German |
| Production | |
| Producers | Johannes Bösiger Helga Bähr Veit Heiduschka Alfred Nathan Martin Schmassmann Peter Spörri |
| Cinematography | Lukas Strebel |
| Editor | Barbara Hennings |
| Running time | 117 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1992 |
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.