Product: Nowhere in Africa (2003)
Rating: 5.0
Truly a wonderful film/Wirklich ein wundervoller Film.
This wonderful movie deservedly won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Everything about it was terrific: plot, cast, scenery, and acting. Even if you don't understnd German, or are turned off by subtitles, "Nowhere in Africa/Nirgendwo in Afrika" is an extremely entertaining film that will captivate you. The storyline has been mentioned many times here on amazon, so I won't go into it. I just want to say that it's been quite a while since I've seen such an intelligent movie. The actors are truly talented and behave like people in real life do. You are drawn to them and their struggle to survive physically and emotionally in an alien land. They make you want to know them, especially their daughter Regina, who easily adapts to her new life and is accepting of and accepted by the Kenyans she meets and befriends along the way. Too, the events that were happening in Germany before and during WWII are subtly brought into the story through letters the main characters receive from their doomed Jewish relatives back in Nazi Germany. The resultant emotional torment and the strain on the marriage of Walter and Jettel draw you into the lives of these people. All I have to say is, "Excellent/Ausgezeichnet!"