Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

stephanlinsenhoff Jettel: I'm afraid of those people, not you? The movie, based on Jettel daughter Reginas book with the same title and screened November 11 2013 by Stockholms Goetheinstituts film club. Not all Jews translated early the German brown years signals. Those who could afford it financially or with their will to find ways and means to leave Germany: they did it. Some early, some later and some, as Walter Redlichs upper-class wife with her daughter the last minute; leaving behind the parents. His father believed: this will be over after at least two years. But Walter saw the signals early, leaving Germany for Kenya. For Jettel, used to upper class life the adjustment to her new life is difficult. Instead a refrigerator, she buys a ballroom gown. She wants to return to Germany. But her husband, knowing what is going on in Germany, tells her that she is lucky to have her life. For his and her parents it meant Auschwitz. Realizing the truth she accepts Nowhere and fills it with meaning. More than her husband, asked 1948 to return and be a judge. Now it is she who wants to stay. By own strength and struggle she formed their new life. The marriage is shaky and the reason that other men fill the gap: the neighbor Suesskind and the English officer, offering his help when she and if ... Afterwards it will be criticized. Times of no-where ("Nowhere" in the literary sense can mean "utopia", no- or good place) forces decisions that in normal times never should be an issue to discuss. They have their own law. For their daughter everything is an adventure. Quickly she adjusts, getting friends. Especially the friendship with the cook Owuor who tells the white Jettel: "I'm a cook. Cooks don't dig in the ground and men don't carry water." Jettel tells him, if he wants to speak to her, he must speak German. German she is, does exactly what the Germans did to her before the move to Kenya. But the cook accepts and carries water, laughed at by the others. Eventually Jettel learns by her mistakes to do better. Learns what tolerance is and should not be.The fugitives where outsiders: white, Germans and - Jews. 1948 is Walter offered to return to Germany as judge in Frankfurt. He tells his daughter and his wife answers: "I am afraid of those people, not you?" Yes, he answers but he wants to be in the front line with the others to give Germany a fresh chance. For Jettel, the new country accepted by trial and error: she has to return to Germany. This country that send his and her husbands parents to Auschwitz. Even them if they had stayed. Her daughter asks why the Jews are so different: "Mother, why are the Jews hated? I mean. You and father are not really Jewish." The mother answers that they never felt Jewish, as aunt Käthe. They where more German as the Germans, seeing for tea their friends at Café Mohnheim in Breslau. Tolerance. What Jettel has learned in Kenya: differences are important: "Tolerance doesn't mean that everyone is the same. That'd be stupid. What I've learned here is how valuable differences are. Differences are good. And intelligent people will never hold it against you." Walters accepts the return to Germany: giving Germany a new chance. He is one of many (when it was clear that Germany looses the war the re-educational movies where USA-prepared). 2001, the same year the movie was screened, it was clear that the Germans had not taken their chance (perhaps one, but two are still Nazis, as Jettel says, and three still want 'Lebensraum', using their German 'Ton'). The female director wrote the script as a reminder, using Reginas book.

Raveesh Shenoy This movie evokes a lot of emotions and thoughts in your head and based on how provoked you are, this masterpiece can range from great to astounding. This is a stunning depiction of the dynamism that the human mind displays in extreme circumstances. A smart lawyer from Germany, aware of the perception of the Nazis towards the Jew, has a grim anticipation of Nazi cruelty towards them. He sets of to Kenya, where his friend would set him up as the caretaker of a farm and this sets the stage for his wife and daughter to flee Germany and live a meager life as against certain death in Germany. What ensues then is a stunning interplay between the perspectives of the husband and the wife. The wife has led a lavish lifestyle back in Germany filled with dinner parties and posh gatherings and the husband a smart lawyer who deeply cares about the family and cannot stand being helpless as the Nazis tear apart the Jew. In Kenya, the family has to interact with locals, manage the farm and make their daughter's life a very happy one. The evolution of these characters throughout the film is as brilliant as the characters themselves. The authentic emotions the daughter experiences is extremely touching and has been portrayed brilliantly in various situations. This film also gives glimpses of the Kenyan life through their interaction with farm caretakers. This movie is about hard decisions, grief, poverty, desperation, love, family and attachment. It addresses Nazi cruelty in a very different and indirect way, through the emotions displayed by those who flee Germany. This movie will put your mind through situations that make you think about a lot of things important to your life and will leave a mark on your forever.

Sam Sloan Didn't know what to make of it as I began watching it. Thought it might be just another one of those movies about Africa, not that there are many I don't like. This went far beyond any movie I've ever seen just on Africa. And more than that, it was one of the best I've seen, easily putting it among my top 10 favorites. The performances by all involved were wonderful. I won't repeat the details of this movie as it has already been done by many others, but do yourself and don't miss this one. You'll lose yourself for a couple of hours and experience a piece of history you never knew about and how others managed to cope with a difficult situation and become the better for it.

mightyeye This is probably the best film I've seen for a long time, it is also splendid for its interpretation of Africans as people, real people with emotions, traditions and hopes unlike so many other movies which regard them as part of the scenery. As for the scenery,indeed for those of us who have lived in Kenya we witness good camera movement.Based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig, "Nowhere in Africa" it charts the ups and downs of the Redlich family a German Jewish family seeking refuge in a British ruled Kenya of which its officials were tainted with a small dose of anti-Semitism, but nevertheless was able to offer a few Jewish families shelter from the Nazi madness in Germany.The acting is splendid, the production led by Caroline Link is marvellous. The use of Swahili, German and English seemed to flow naturally and kept the magic of reality. The leading characters in the story develop and change, become rounded. This is a film worth seeing and most of all go and read the book by Stefanie Zweig.