Nowhere in Africa

Nowhere in Africa

  • Caroline Link
  • 2001
  • 2h 21m
  • Germany

Academy Award for Foreign Language Film in 2001 for a moving, traditional period film that follows a German-Jewish family in Africa just before World War II. Based on the autobiographical book by Stephanie Zweich.

Synopsis

Sensing the threat posed by Hitler, a Jewish lawyer moves with his wife and daughter to a farm in Kenya. The little girl quickly adapts but the wife is unhappy. Things get worse when the family is forced to move again, this time to Nairobi at the direction of the ruling British authorities. Frustrated, the lawyer decides to join the Allied army - and his wife finds solace in other men.

Nowhere in Africa
Details
Also known as
Nirgendwo in Afrika | Πουθενά στην Αφρική
Festival screenings
Subtitles
Age rating
15+

Best Foreign Language Film

Oscars

2003

Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

Golden Globes

2003

Special Prize of the Jury

Karlovy Vary Film Festival

2002

FIPRESCI Prize

Karlovy Vary Film Festival

2002

Creative Europe Media
European Union
EPAnEK
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