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starring: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo, Lea Kurkadirected by: Caroline Link
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781404940857
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404940855
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sales Rank: 9526
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Both epic and heartbreakingly intimate, Nowhere in Africa begins with a Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich fleeing Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances (she brought with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown), while Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor. But this is only the beginning of a series of uprootings, and as the surface of their lives is torn away, Walter and Jettel find they have little in common, and must--under tumultuous circumstances--build their marriage anew. With incredible skill and passion, Nowhere in Africa manages to bring you fully into every change in this family's life; it richly deserves the Academy Award® it received in 2002. A powerful, deeply moving film. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - From Refugee to Enemy Alien
Some Jews in order to escape from Hitler's persecution and genocide in the late 1930's fled to parched Kenya in Africa where they found the life primitive and faced new kinds of hostility. This movie zeroes in on a family from Breslau. A mother and her daughter take flight to Kenya to join the husband who is a tenant farmer struggling to eke out a living. Regina, the daughter, accepts the blacks and their culture while the mother shows her initial prejudices. Her husband owes a debt to his Kenyan ... Read More
Rating: - A wonderful film
This movie depicts a young Jewish family that flees Nazi Germany before the outbreak of World War II, and settles in Kenya. The husband (Merab Ninidze) was a lawyer in his native land, and he becomes a farmer in Africa, working for others. Their daughter (Lea Kurka and Karoline Eckertz) grows up with her heart in Africa, and little or no recollection of Germany.
Their families are killed in the Nazi Holocaust, even though the husband tries in vain to warn them of the coming storm, ... Read More
Rating: - A MUST-SEE gem for the entire family!
Just a beautiful, engrossing film that emphasizes the importance of family, especially when times are tough/dangerous .. ..
It will remind many of the numerous sacrifices that our parents made for our future and what they had to face at the time .. ..
A well-deserved OSCAR for the makers, this gem is a MUST-SEE for the entire family and will give a gentle prodding to everyone that it's the differences between cultures that makes this world so wonderful and a blessing to be ... Read More
Rating: - A Love Story
Although much can be said about Jews leaving Germany prior to Hitler sealing the border, it has all been said before.
The thrust of this movie, pardon the pun, is the husband's desperation for his wife's love and support. He wants to be something and do something with his life and yet, here he is self-exiled to Kenya to sit on a farm. He wants his wife to desire him but she is aloof and remote. At times his quiet desperation is palpable.
For me, this view was different and ... Read More
Rating:  - An affecting film but one which doesn't let us get too close
If Jettel Redich, a sophisticated, attractive and perhaps shallow woman with a small daughter, a loving husband and a warm, extended family, had had her way in 1938 she would not have left Germany to join her husband in East Africa. Of course, if she hadn't she and her daughter, along with all her family, would have been killed in the German death camps three or four years later. Jettel (Julianne Kohl), her husband Walter (Merab Ninidze) and their daughter Regina (Lea Kurka and then, older, Karoline Eckertz) ... Read More
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