With a rich sense of detail and ferocious determination not to simplify the complex, the film explores themes of maintaining one’s cultural identity in a foreign land and the amazing adaptability of kids.
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04/05/03
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Nowhere in Africa (2003)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:83
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A visually lovely epic with compelling, three-dimensional characters.
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $5,888,057
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Juliane Kohler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo
Director: Caroline Link
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Reviews for Nowhere in Africa
It's beautifully shot and too long, and contains pained references to the Holocaust; it's a movie tailor-made for awards rather than for personal reasons.
04/11/03
The premise makes one wonder what it might be like to grow up in a completely foreign land, surrounded by entirely different customs and languages.
01/12/03
Large in scope and swelling with sentiment.
04/07/03
Link takes few chances as these displaced Europeans in Africa learn a new sense of self-worth and multicultural understanding, but the details of their experience are compelling.
03/27/03
There's a wealth of material here -- all sorts of fascinating details -- that more than fill up the film's generous two-hours-plus running time.
05/02/03
...generates its power through first-rate performances, believable character behavior and an accumulation of convincing detail...
05/19/03
Nowhere in Africa is a movie of many moods and nuances. In addition to being a Holocaust saga, it's a girl's story, a woman's story and the story of a marriage.
04/11/03
Unusual in how it expertly blends two popular types of movies to create one seamless motion picture experience.
10/09/03
Nowhere in Africa depicts the magical ways that Kenya stirs the soul of a young Jewish girl who adapts easily to the local culture and their earth-cherishing practices.
03/09/03
Una buena historia para decir un par de cosas sobre el desarraigo, los lazos familiares, y la chance de empezar una nueva vida siempre que sea necesario.
01/08/04
There's a lot more to Nowhere in Africa -- too much, actually ... Yet even if the movie has at least one act too many, the question that runs through it -- of whether belonging to a place is a matter of time or of will -- remains consistent.
03/28/03
Top CriticPopulated with personalities so completely rendered that they're as believable as the people next door.
06/06/03
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.
03/07/03
Top CriticAdapting Stefanie Zweig's novel for the screen, director Caroline Link looks at the struggles of a German family working through social and cultural clashes much like the last film which earned her an Oscar nomination, albeit on a more epic and exotic lev
03/08/03
“Nowhere in Africa” is an [previously] untold Holocaust-era story that is intriguing and often striking in its depiction of a very unusual family of survivors.
03/14/03
A good story, exceedingly well told.
03/27/03
Link creates a complex and fascinating portrait of a marriage under the enormous stress of geographical dislocation and historical trauma.
05/09/03
Top CriticCaroline Link's Oscar winning film has sweeping theme music, stunning cinematography and a well-told story that offers a unique slice of history.
10/24/03
A penetrating look at what was lost in ways that are subtle but profound.
05/01/03
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