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Nowhere in Africa (German with English Subtitles)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404940864
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404940863
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 01793
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Running Time: 142 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times hails this film as being "laced with poignancy and conflict urgency and compassion." "& I loved this film!" raves Roger Ebert "& this is the kind of movie that real people really really like!" Nowhere In Africa - the critically acclaimed Academy Award® winner - is a story about love about family about leaving one home to create another. Spanning two continents it's the true tale of a Jewish attorney and his family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. As the war rages on the other side of the world his relationships with his wife and daughter become increasingly complicated: they struggle between resisting and embracing their new life while reaching out to each other.System Requirements:Running Time: 146 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: R UPC: 043396017931 Manufacturer No: 01793
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:  - 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
Rating: - Nowhere in Africa
Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, "Nowhere in Africa" is a vivid, powerful drama with elements of adventure, suspense, and romance. Narrated by the youngest of the clan, Regina (played by Lea Kurka and Karoline Eckertz), this is an heroic tale about one family's painful displacement and subsequent perseverance in adapting to a primitive but beautiful land. Maintaining an epic sweep without ever losing its rich emotional flavor, "Nowhere" is a stunning achievement.
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