by Caroline Link · Optimum · DVD · EAN 5060034570639
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«Nowhere in Africa», original title «Nirgendwo in Afrika», is the movie by Caroline Link (2001), starring Juliane Köhler and Merab Ninidze, on DVD.
This movie adapts Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel and follows the Redlichs, a German Jewish family who emigrate to a farm in Kenya in 1938 to escape Nazism. There, the wife and daughter must adapt to rural life and an unfamiliar culture, while war and exile transform their bonds and their idea of home.
The original version is in German, with English subtitles. This region 2 DVD, in PAL, runs 141 minutes and contains 1 disc. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
For those interested in period European cinema and true stories of exile and Jewish life during the Second World War.
