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Nowhere
in Africa follows the life of the Redlich family, which has emigrated
from Germany before the start of the war and began working on
a farm in Kenya.
NOWHERE IN AFRICA
Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001)
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CREDITS
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Directed by Caroline Link
Screenplay by Caroline Link
Novel by Stefanie Zweig
Juliane Köhler .... Jettel Redlich
Regine Zimmermann .... Käthe
Merab Ninidze .... Walter Redlich
Matthias Habich .... Süßkind
Gabrielle Odinis .... Dienstmädchen Klara
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Karoline Eckertz .... Regina
Diane Keen .... Mrs. Rubens
Herbert Knaup .... Walter Redlich (voice)
Lea Kurka .... Regina
Sidede Onyulo .... Owuor
Andrew Sachs .... Mr. Rubens
Produced
by
Andreas Bareiß .... executive producer
Sven Ebeling .... co-producer
Bernd Eichinger .... producer
Peter Herrmann .... producer
Jürgen Tröster .... line producer
Michael Weber .... producer
Original Music by Niki Reiser and Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock (additional
music)
Cinematography by Gernot Roll
Film Editing by Patricia Rommel
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SYNOPSIS
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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.
Winner
of five 2002 Golden Lola (German Film) Awards, including best film,
director and cinematography, NOWHERE IN AFRICA was written and directed
by Caroline Link (whose BEYOND SILENCE was nominated for a 1996
Best Foreign Film Oscar), and based on the best-selling autobiographical
novel by Stephanie Zweig.
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REVIEW
BY
DARREL
MANSON
Pastor,
Artesia Christian Church, Artesia, CA
http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch01198
Darrel
has an incredible love and interest in the cinematic arts. His reviews
usually include independent and significantly important film.
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While
Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist) was struggling
to survive the atrocities of the Warsaw ghetto, some Jews had been
lucky enough to escape the European Holocaust. Nowhere in Africa follows
the life of the Redlich family, which has emigrated from Germany before
the start of the war and began working on a farm in Kenya.
While their experience is nowhere near as dramatic and gripping as
Szpilman's story, Nowhere in Africa gives us yet another example of
the way lives were affected for many.
Walter Redlich had been a lawyer in Germany, until the laws made it
impossible for Jews to practice law. His wife Jettel was a somewhat
pampered, bourgeois wife who, in spite of her husbands instructions,
packs the fancy china for Africa rather than a cooler.
They along with their daughter Regina enter a strange new world where
they have lost their status and wealth. The farm they manage for an
English owner is in the beautiful expanse of Africa, but they are
isolated in many ways. They have left their nation and family (who
will perish). They are the only white people they see most days. Most
of the other whites around speak English rather than German.
Regina has the easiest time adapting. She soon begins to learn the
ways of the local people. Through the tutorship of Owour, the family's
cook, Regina learns the legends and world view of these Africans.
Although as they years pass, all undergo meaningful changes which
strain their lives and the family. Eventually they have to decide
whether to return to help rebuild Germany or stay in the land that
has become their home.
In this story, various world views intermingle. The ways English and
Germans and Africans understand things differ widely. Each makes sense
from each perspective, but may seem foolish to those from other perspectives.
Yet as time passes we see that each is a valuable and valid insight
into what the world is like. True wisdom comes not in mastering one's
culture's understandings, but by being able to bring the various perceptions
together.
The African scenery is certainly beautiful, even in the severe conditions
of the region. That rugged beauty of the setting underscore the lives
that were at once hard, but also a blessing because the family had
escaped the sure death of the Holocaust.
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