“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.
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03/14/03
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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
This is an intelligent epic told without special pleading, a film able to cut deep enough to reveal a keen specificity of experience.
03/13/03
Top CriticThe movie's real strength lies in its intelligent, sympathetic account of the dynamic, difficult marriage of Regina's parents.
03/13/03
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
Adapting 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
A ravishing page-turner of an adventure that defies as many expectations as it fulfills.
03/07/03
Top CriticBeautifully shot on location in Kenya and filled with touching, almost magical moments.
03/07/03
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 CriticStealing scene after scene is the daughter (played by both Lea Kurka and Karoline Eckertz), who adds charm to this top-notch effort.
03/07/03
Although the plot stretches thin at an overlong 141 minutes, writer-director Caroline Link never lets the picture's African setting distract attention from the human values she wants to explore.
03/07/03
Mediocre, interminable soap opera.
03/07/03
Top CriticDespite a shaky narrative focus and dramatic reticence, its journey is consistently absorbing.
03/06/03
Top CriticAudience empathy for the displaced Redlichs, coupled with the filmmaker's proffered charms of wise natives and their mysterious rituals, goes a long way toward making this lyrical travelogue a crowd pleaser.
03/06/03
Top CriticThe story here is more personal and intimate than in last year's Shanghai Ghetto, in which an entire Jewish community was transported to Shanghai.
03/06/03
Top CriticThis quiet, beautiful film from director Caroline Link puts a different spin on the Holocaust film genre.
03/06/03
A straightforward epic, almost alarmingly quaint in the telling.
03/04/03
This is a wonderful adventure.
03/04/03
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02/06/03
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
Intriguing story, artfully developed characterizations, and fine performances carry the film to excellence.
01/09/03
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