Die jüdische Familie Redlich emigriert 1938 nach Kenia, wo der Anwalt Walter Redlich als Verwalter auf einer Farm arbeitet. Während Ehefrau Jettel, Tochter aus gutbürgerlichem Hause, sich nur schwer an das neue Leben gewöhnt, blüht ihre einst so schüchterne Tochter Regina förmlich auf. Als der Krieg endlich zu Ende ist, wird Walter eine Anstellung als Richter in Frankfurt angeboten. Aber nach all den Jahren, in denen sie das Leben in Kenia schätzen gelernt haben, ist es fraglich, ob Jettel und Regina ihn zurück nach Deutschland begleiten ... (Quelle: Umschlag).
Una coppia di ebrei tedeschi riesce a lasciare la Germania nel 1938 e con la figlioletta Regina raggiunge il Kenya dove ricomincia la vita in una fattoria. Tratto da un romanzo autobiografico di Stefanie Zweig (Morandini).
Nirgendwo in Afrika liebe zu finden ist das eine, sie festzuhalten das andere
Nowhere in Africa
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Nirgendwo in Afrika
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"A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life. Shortly after their departure, things are changing in Germany very quickly, and a turning back seems impossible. So everyone has to arrange himself with the new life in a new continent"--Internet Movie Database.
Nirgendwo in Afrika : frei nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Stefanie Zweig
A Jewish lawyer living in Germany at the time of the Third Reich, begins to fear for his safety so takes his family to live on a farm in Kenya; but he is made unwelcome by the British settlers there. The 2003 winner of the Foreign Film Oscar.
En 1938, une famille juive, les Redlich, quitte l'Allemagne et s'exile au Kenya. Le père, ancien avocat, accepte un poste de gardien de ferme... Tandis que sa fille, Regina, se lie d'amitié avec leur cuisinier, Owuor, sa femme, Jettel, s'adapte mal à leur nouvelle vie. En pleine guerre, le couple se retrouve alors déstabilisé par ce mode de vie qui n'est pas le sien.
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Nowhere in Africa sometimes home is where you least expect it
Nirgendwo in Afrika : Nowhere in Africa [videorecording]
A Jewish attorney fleeing the Nazi regime for a farm in Kenya, faces increasingly complicated familial relationships as they struggle to embrace their new life.
"The screenplay is based on the 1995 autobiographical novel of the same name by Stefanie Zweig. It tells the story of the life in Kenya of a German-Jewish family that emigrated there in 1938 to escape persecution in Nazi Germany"--Wikipedia.
Een Duits-joodse familie vlucht net voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Kenia waar ze in een klein dorpje tijdelijk hun bestaan opbouwen.
Traces the story of Walter and Jettel Redlich, a successful lawyer and his beautiful, elegant wife, whose lives are transformed when they leave their comfortable home in Nazi-Germany with their young daughter and flee to Kenya in 1939.
The true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learn to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
A Jewish family emigrates from Germany to Kenya in 1937. The husband works as a manager on a farm and his wife has trouble adapting to the tough, lonely life. Only their daughter quickly makes contact with the natives. When the war breaks out, the family is first interned but then released. The man joins the army, the daughter attends boarding school and the woman continues to live on the farm. After the war, the family returns to Germany, but not without a certain reluctance.
Die jüdische Familie Redlich emigriert 1938 nach Kenia, wo der Anwalt Walter Redlich als Verwalter auf einer Farm arbeitet. Während Ehefrau Jettel, Tochter aus gutbürgerlichem Hause, sich nur schwer an das neue Leben gewöhnt, blüht ihre einst schüchterne Tochter Regina förmlich auf. Doch der Verlust von Heimat und Verwandten und die Sprachlosigkeit darüber bedroht die Ehe von Jettel und Walter, und sie finden nur ganz langsam wieder zueinander. Vielfach ausgezeichnete Verfilmung des Romans von Stefanie Zweig.
Nirgendwo in Afrika (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)
True story of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learn to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learn to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Nirgendwo in Afrika : Liebe zu finden ist das eine, sie festzuhalten das andere
"The true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya."
Story of a German Jewish family who travel to Kenya and spend the war years there. Each of the family members adapt differently to the exotic circumstances and come to deal with African life individually.
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Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Summary: The true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learn to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Nowhere in Africa Nirgendwo in Afrika
A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, Nowhere In Africa (the 2003 Oscar winner of Best Foreign Language Film) is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya. Torn from her comfortable life in Germany, the shy, five-year-old Regina embraces her new life discovering the magic in the wilderness of the sun-burnt African plains and the initially strange African people who live there.
In 1938, Walter and Jettel Redlich, a successful lawyer and his wife, flee Nazi Germany for Kenya with their young daughter. Walter manages a farm for a short-tempered British colonial; Jettel experiences tremendous cultural and economic shock; daughter Regina begins to blossom, learning the language and making friends with the family's cook Owuor. While the war rages in Europe, the family's relationships to their foreign environment become increasingly complex as Jettel grows more self-assured and Walter more haunted by the life they left behind.
One family's story of a homeland lost and a new one found. A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930's Kenya.
Nirgendwo in Afrika (Film cinématographique)
A Jewish lawyer living in Germany at the time of the Third Reich, begins to fear for his safety so takes his family to live on a farm in Kenya.
Nirgendwo in Afrika nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Stefanie Zweig
Die jüdische Familie Redlich emigriert 1938 nach Kenia, wo der Anwalt Walter Redlich als Verwalter auf einer Farm arbeitet. Während Ehefrau Jettel, Tochter aus gutbürgerlichem Hause, sich nur schwer an das neue Leben gewöhnt, blüht ihre einst schüchterne Tochter Regina förmlich auf. Als der Krieg endlich zu Ende ist, wird Walter eine Anstellung als Richter in Frankfurt angeboten. Aber nach all den Jahren, in denen sie das Leben in Kenia schätzen gelernt haben, ist es fraglich, ob Jettel und Regina ihn zurück nach Deutschland begleiten.
The Jewish Redlich family flees in 1938 to Kenya, where husband and lawyer Walter finds work a manager on a farm. While his wife Jettel struggles with their new life and its challenges threaten their marriage, their once shy daughter Regina blossoms. After the war is over he is offered a position as a judge in Frankfurt. After so many years in Kenya, should he go back and will his family go with him?
Motion picture actors and actresses Germany Interviews.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
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