Nowhere in Africa

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.