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Dominican Rep. Nowhere in Africa
- Original title
- Nirgendwo in Afrika
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 140 min.
- Country
Germany- Director
- Screenwriter
- Caroline Link. Novel: Stefanie Zweig
- Cast
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Juliane Köhler
Merab Ninidze- Lea Kurka
Matthias Habich- Gabrielle Odinis
- Sidede Onyulo
Herbert Knaup- Karoline Eckertz
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Based on a true story. Biography. Africa. Holocaust. Nazism. 1930s. 1940s
- Synopsis
- A love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel (Juliane Köhler, of AIMÉE AND JAGUAR) and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country-learning the local language and customs, and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's cook. As the war rages on the other side of the world, the trio's relationships to their strange environment become increasingly complicated as Jettel grows more self-assured and Walter more haunted by the life they left behind. As they eventually learn to cherish their life in Africa, they also endeavor to find a way back to each other.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2002: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture2002: Golden Globes: Best Nominated Foreign Language Film2002: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Special Jury Prize2001: 5 German Film Awards: Best Movie, Director, Actor, Screenplay and Score2002: Festival of Valladolid - Seminci: nominated to Best Picture - Golden Spike.
- Critics' reviews
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"This marvelously evocative movie keenly observes the quotidian even as it captures the epic sweep of a tale of displacement and adaptation."
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"A safari of the soul."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 90 My Top 10 Movies from 2001 (19)
- 99 My Favorite German Movies (12)
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