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Why we chose it
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.
Information
- Director
- Cast
- Also known as
- Nirgendwo in Afrika
- Festival screenings
- Oscars, Karlovy Vary IFF
- Language
- German, Swahili, English
- Country
- Germany
- Subtitles
- Greek
- Age rating
- 15+
Oscars
Best Foreign Language Film
2003
Golden Globes
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
2003
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Special Prize of the Jury
2002
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize
2002
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