Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
7.5
/10
52 Ratings
THE FOSTER BOY
Der Verdingbub
Synopsis
This uncompromising portrait of the appalling practice of taking poor children from their parents and sending them as “contract children” to live with new families who often abused them, was common in Switzerland until the 1950s.
Synopsis
This uncompromising portrait of the appalling practice of taking poor children from their parents and sending them as “contract children” to live with new families who often abused them, was common in Switzerland until the 1950s.