Nowhere in Africa2001

Director
Caroline Link

Acters

Juliane Koehler (Jettel Redlich)
Merab Ninidze (Walter Redlich)
Sidede Onyulo (Owuor)
Matthias Habich (Walter Suesskind)
Lea Kurka (Younger Regina Redlich)
Karoline Eckertz (Older Regina Redlich)

Due to Hitler’s threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.

A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. Five year old Regina begins a new life with her parents, Jettel and Walter, on a small isolated farm in Kenya. Here they lead an impoverished existence far removed from their roots in Germany. While Regina discovers the magic of Africa, a foreign continent full of strange people, her parents become desperate in the face of poverty and isolation. Things are changing in Germany very quickly, and a turning back seems impossible. So everyone has to arrange himself with the new life in a new continent.

Nowhere in Africa’ is the warm-hearted adaptation of the bestselling autobiography by Stefanie Zweig.

“A triumph of harmony… lavish, sweeping and beautifully realised.” – Empire

“Everything in the film rings true, is deeply moving, richly photographed, and wonderfully acted.” – Arizona Republic

“It is so rare to find a film where you become quickly, simply absorbed in the story. You want to know what happens next.” – Chicago Sun Times (Roger Ebert)