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.

Venice Classics

由埃德加·莱茨导演的半自传体式电影长片《故乡三部曲》的第二部。讲述凤凰男海尔曼在经历了少年时代那段情殇之后，从穷乡僻壤的洪斯吕克山村沙巴赫来到慕尼黑求学。恰巧经历七八十年代的时代变革，与一帮青年们演绎了一出热火朝天的青春交响曲，展现了德国新一代青年的生活及精神世界。