kenjha A Jewish family flees Nazi Germany for Kenya but must adapt to the foreign land as well as the changing dynamics of their relationships. This German film is beautifully photographed under the direction of Link, although her camera is at times unnecessarily frisky. The acting is solid: Kohler as the woman who resents Africa initially but comes to appreciate it, Ninidze as her conflicted husband, and Onyulo as an African cook that the family becomes attached to. Kurka and Eckertz are also effective as the couple's daughter. The film does a good job of conveying the tension in the marriage as Kohler and Ninidze each tries to cope with the hardships.

emuir-1 When I think of all the rubbish on film, the well-intentioned films which didn't quite pull it off, the unnecessary changes to books which would have done quite well being left alone, and the trashy melodramatic treatment of many stories set during WWII, it is a great relief to come across a film which not only appears totally authentic but holds one's attention throughout.The Kenya locations coupled with the use of local actors speaking in their own languages makes this film a stand out. The story of the educated upper middle class family uprooted from everything they knew in Germany and forced to cope with unaccustomed poverty as they start over in a totally different land among people speaking a different language is itself heartrending, especially as they were cut off from their families and comfortable civilized life as they knew it, and knew that they could not go back. They are forced to make a new life among the Africans, whom they must have regarded as illiterate and uncultivated, yet it is the Africans who accept them as they adjust to life in Kenya.This is not the Kenya of White Mischief, or Out of Africa, which showed the lives of the better off settlers. This is the Kenya of lonely isolated farms where life is primitive and hard.Everything about this film is superb, the acting, the story, the locations. One can watch it again and again without tiring of it.

h wills I love foreign films as it is, but I thought this film "Nowhere in Africa" was really good. I found myself feeling just like the woman who left Germany (to escape) who then found herself in a foreign land of Africa to then find herself becoming apart of the country. I'm sure many people went through this, and it still amazes me that the Holocaust happened in this century. It really hasn't been THAT long ago. This movie doesn't focus on the Holocaust, it gives you a different angle from those who lived it in a different way. I thought the little girls attitude on life was great as well.I miss Owuor and his ways, I enjoyed watching him converse with anyone in the film.

Lee Eisenberg Germany has produced many great movies, and "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (called "Nowhere in Africa" in English) is another one. Aside from the perceptive plot (a German Jewish family flees the Third Reich and moves to East Africa, where the daughter develops a relationship with a local African), there's also the impressive cinematography. You really do have to see it to get the true experience.Some people may wonder how many movies Germany - or anyone - can make about the Third Reich, but that misses the point. This is an important part of history, and we need to keep the memory alive to avoid repeating it. And this movie does a good job showing it. "NIA" certainly deserved Best Foreign Language Film.