Nowhere in Africa (Blu-ray)
One family's tale of a homeland lost... and a homeland found.
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: February 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Juliane Köhler & Merab Ninidze | |
Performer: | Karoline Eckertz, Sidede Onyulo, Lea Kurka & Matthias Habich | |
Directed by | Caroline Link | |
Edited by | Patricia Rommel | |
Screenwriting by | Caroline Link | |
Composition by | Niki Reiser | |
Produced by | Peter Hermann | |
Director of Photography: | Gernot Roll |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2002 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...A crowd pleaser...
Entertainment Weekly
...An emotionally complex scenario laced with poignancy and conflict, urgency and compassion. This is an intelligent epic told without special pleading, a film able to cut deep enough to reveal a keen specificity of experience...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3.5 --
Nowhere in Africa is long enough that each character is meticulously studied and developed while Link takes the time also to provide wonderfully patient, artistic moments
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Bangitout.com
...The strong narrative develops unforgettable characters...
Chicago Sun-Times
...Entertaining, accomplished...
Sight and Sound
Una buena historia para decir un par de cosas sobre el desarraigo, los lazos familiares, y la chance de empezar una nueva vida siempre que sea necesario.
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Uruguay Total
Rating: A --
The acting is wonderful throughout, and director Carole Link has crafted a tale with the dramatic scope of a great epic. The English Patient comes to mind.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Product Description:
Fleeing Nazi Germany, many Jewish families found that a new life was as difficult as any hardship they had previously known. This German drama, based on a book by Stephanie Zweig, tells of one family's struggle as Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze), his wife Jettel (Juliane Kohler), and their young daughter Regina (Karoline Eckertz) flee Germany for British occupied Nairobi. Walter is hired as the bwana (caretaker) on a ranch, assisted by a native Owuor (Sidede Onyulo). Walter and Jettel's marriage becomes strained under the difficult conditions, and when the British Army assembles all Germans into camps, the couple barely communicate with one another. Jettel has an affair with a British officer that allows the family to be released to tend another farm, earning just enough to send Regina (now played by teenage Lea Kurka) to school. The end of World War II forces the family to make the difficult decision whether to return to their homeland or continue to live in their new African home where they have raised their daughter, learned tolerance, and most importantly, survived. Caroline Link's absorbing drama won five German film awards and was nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Keywords:
Live-Action
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World War II
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Jewish Heritage
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Escape
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Nazis
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Africa
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Theatrical Release
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Holocaust
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1930s
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Jewish
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Nazi Germany
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- Sales Rank: 65,028
- UPC: 738329229238
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