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Nowhere in Africa

Nirgendwo in Afrika

2001

Caroline Link

Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Lea Kurka, Matthias Habich ...

6.7

3,773

Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It is so rare to find a film where you become quickly, simply absorbed in the story. You want to know what happens next. Caroline Link's 'Nowhere in Africa' is a film like that (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"This marvelously evocative movie keenly observes the quotidian even as it captures the epic sweep of a tale of displacement and adaptation."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"This is one of the best films about a person coming to the viewpoint of another, only to see that person have a change in attitude. It's also as good as Out of Africa (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Link, a better director than writer, lets her story go on too long, but stages the many chapters of her epic with a sharp eye and strong sense of rhythm"	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A safari of the soul."	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Mediocre, interminable soap opera."	NEG
United Kingdom	Dan Fainaru Screendaily	"The film works mainly because Link carefully avoids trying to make an American epic genre"	POS

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