Children of the Landstrasse (film)

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Movie
Original title Children of the country road
Kinderdlandstrasse plakat.jpg
Country of production Switzerland , Germany , Austria
original language Swiss German , German
Publishing year 1992
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Urs Egger
script Johannes Bösiger
production Johannes Bösiger,
Peter Spoerri
music Detlef Petersen
camera Lukas Strebel
cut Barbara Hennings
occupation

The feature film Children of the street is the fate of a Yenish family in Switzerland after the start of World War II and in the post-war period . The story is based on the experiences of many Yenish, with the based on "racial hygiene" principles do the Agency Kinder der Landstrasse faced were. Between 1926 and 1973 attempts were made under the guise of the semi-state, still active Pro Juventute Foundation, to make the travelers as a minority disappear in Switzerland. This was followed by the systematic dismantling of family structures, the impossibility of the traditional way of life, administrative custody, admission to psychiatry and forced sterilizations.

action

In autumn 1939, the Yenish Kessel family, together with a German Sinti family, helped a farmer in the Allgäu with the harvest. Faced with the beginning of the Second World War, they manage to move to Switzerland, which they consider their home. There, however, Jana and Django, the children of the family, are taken away from their parents on the initiative of the “Charity for the Vagant Children”, which aims to seduce the Yeniche. After the end of the war, Jana lived as a foster child on a farm owned by the Mauerhofer family, where she only took on the function of an inexpensive maid . Since the head of the relief organization, Dr. Schönefeld, preventing any efforts by Jana's parents to get in touch with her again, Jana believes that her parents have long forgotten her.

criticism

"Relocated to a game plot based on documentary models, which stimulates a societal and social examination of conscience and poses fundamental questions about our western social system."

Awards and production history

The film was released in Swiss cinemas in May 1992. In August of the same year it had its international premiere on the Piazza Grande as part of the Locarno International Film Festival . In the same year, the film received the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actress Award at the Amiens Film Festival, and was shown in the official competition of the Montréal Festival as a 'special event' at the Festival of India in New Delhi. In Fort Lauderdale , the work, which is one of the classics of the new Swiss film, was voted best foreign picture.

At the time it was made, Kinder der Landstrasse was the most expensive Swiss feature film to date. It was also the first official co-production of the three German-speaking countries Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The author, student among others of Frank Daniel, chose a purely fictional basic structure for the development of the script, which was supplemented by the results of extensive research and the results of the cooperation with various historians and representatives of the traveling people themselves. This team included the Yenish writer Mariella Mehr .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Children of the Landstrasse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Festival international du film d'Amiens in the French language Wikipedia
  3. ^ Frank Daniel in the English language Wikipedia