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 the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE
IN AFRICA was written and directed by Caroline Link and based on the best-selling
autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig.
This Film is playing in Texas now.
http://www.nowhereinafrica.com/index_fl.html