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Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)

Just before the outbreak of World War II, the German-Jewish Redlich family manages to escape the Nazi terror at the very last moment.

Five year old Regina begins a new life with her parents, Jettel and Walter, on a small isolated farm in Kenya, where they lead an impoverished existence far removed from their roots in Germany. While Regina discovers the magic of Africa, a foreign continent full of strange people, her parents become desperate in the face of poverty and isolation. For Walter, his inability to cut Germany out of his heart tortures him far more than their economic plight. This remains so even when he becomes certain that the rest of his family in Germany has been murdered by the Nazis.

Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim in 1964 and studied at the University of Television & Film in Munich from 1986-1991. Her graduation film Sommertage (1991) won the Kodak Award at the Hof Film Festival. Her 1996 feature debut Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) was nominated in 1998 for the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film and received the Bavarian Film Award, the German Film Award in Silver and the Guild Film Award in Gold, among other commendations. Her other films include: the Erich Kaestner-adaptation Annaluise and Anton (Puenktchen und Anton, 1999), Kalle der Traeumer (TV, 1992), Glueck zum Anfassen (1989), Bunte Blumen (1988), and the Oscar®-winning Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika, 2001) for which she also received German Film Awards for Best Film and Best Director as well as the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary in 2002.
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2001
Director Caroline Link
Screenplay Caroline Link
Director of Photography Gernot Roll
Editor Patricia Rommel
Music by Niki Reiser
Production Design Susann Bieling, Uwe Szielasko
Producer Peter Herrmann
Production Company MTM Medien & Television/Munich, in co-production with Sven Ebeling, Bernd Eichinger, Thilo Kleine, Michael Weber, Bavaria Film/Geiselgasteig, Constantin Film Produktion/Munich, Media Cooperation One/Stuttgart
Principal Cast Karoline Eckertz, Matthias Habich, Juliane Koehler, Lea Kurka, Merab Ninidze, Sidede Onyulo
Casting An Dorthe Braker, Uwe Bünker
Length 141 min, 3,878 m
Format 35 mm, color, cs
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, French, Spanish
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festival Screenings Karlovy Vary 2002 (in competition), Jersualem 2002, Toronto 2002, Viareggio 2002, Warsaw 2002 (German Panorama), Valladolid 2002 (in competition), Hamptons International Film Festival 2002, Pusan 2002, Havana 2002, Mar del Plata 2003, Kolkata 2003, Kolkata 2009
Awards German Film Awards 2002 for Best Picture, Best Direction & Best Supporting Actor, Best Music, FIPRESCI Award & Special Jury Prize Karlovy Vary 2002, Mayor's Prize for Best Feature Jerusalem 2002, Audience Award for Best Feature Film Hamptons 2002, Bavarian Film Award 2002, Grand Prize of the Jury & Best Screenplay Bordeaux 2002, Bavarian Film Award/Audience Award 2003, OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film (2003)
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich

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