Movies for Grownups Award |
| Best Foreign Film |
Audience Award |
| Best Production (Produzentenpreis) |
Golden Wave |
| Best Film (Meilleur Film) |
| Best Screenplay (Meilleur Scénario Long Métrage) |
Golden Frog |
Euregio Film Award |
| Most Promising Young Talent (Nachwuchspreis) |
Film Award in Gold |
| Best Cinematography (Beste Kamera/Bildgestaltung) |
| Best Direction (Beste Regie) |
| Best Film Score (Beste Filmmusik) |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Beste darstellerische Leistung - Männliche Nebenrolle) |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Beste darstellerische Leistung - Weibliche Hauptrolle) |
| Outstanding Feature Film (Bester Spielfilm) |
Guild Film Award - Silver |
| German Film (Deutscher Film) |
Audience Award |
| Best Fiction Feature Film/Video |
Audience Award |
| Best Feature |
Crystal Globe |
International Film Award |
| Feature Film |
Golden Spike |
What a great movie! I really don't know what to praise first: The great acting, the music or the cinematography, everything is really done more than very well!
The director Charlotte Link has done it again, After the immensely beautiful 'Jenseits der Stille', she realized the book of Stefanie Zweig into a movie. It is about Zweig's childhood in Kenia, where to she and her jewish family fled in 1938.
Nirgendwo in Afrika is a fascinating film with a beautiful landscape! But: You shouldn't have read the book before, otherwise you might be disappointed, like me!
A Jewish family leaves Germany during the buildup before World War II, and goes to Kenya to manage a farm. The father, Walter Redlich, was a lawyer in Germany, so this is far from anything he is comfortable doing or anywhere he is comfortable being, but he rightly feels that deadly changes are inevitably coming to his home country, and so he has little choice.
A German Jewish family escapes Hitler's genocide by immigrating to Kenya shortly before World War II in writer and director Caroline Link's Nowhere in Africa, but life is not easy in the rugged country. Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze), an accomplished lawyer in his homeland, struggles to provide for his family while he works for a temperamental cattle rancher.
"Nowhere in Africa" ("Nirgendwo in Afrika") approaches the Holocaust from the perspective of a couple with a young daughter who had the insight - instinct, perhaps - to flee the boiling cauldron of Nazi Germany before doors closed and deportation and genocide ensued.
I saw this film twice, once on Saturday and once on the following Tuesday. I never do this.
This film was a surprise. It presents us a family that escape the horrors they foresaw coming in Germany to an uncertain future in Africa.
