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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The story opens in 1938, as Jews Jettel and her daughter Regina are preparing to escape Germany and join her husband who has found work in Kenya. Life on a poor farm in the bush is a shock to the spoiled Jettel, but 5 year old Regina loves it and the people, especially their loyal cook, Owuor. Over the next ten years, the family faces many challenges.This movie is based on the autobiography of the real Regina. With the war as a backdrop, it focuses on the relationship between her parents; she's selfish and stubborn, he's hardworking and loving, and their marriage is a difficult one. Regina has her own adjustments to make when she is sent away to boarding school. The one constant in her life is her beloved friend Owuor, and his scenes were the most touching for me.The movie is gritty and realistic. The actors appear to have no make-up and the photography uses mostly natural light which, unfortunately, made everything in the shadows look inky black. Another drawback for me was the editing; scenes jump from one to the other with no smooth transitions and there are many story lines that are never resolved. Since this is a true story, I would have liked to see an epilogue at the end telling about the family. It also seemed too long for me.It is a very interesting and poignant story about suffering and adjustment that conveys the horror of war without actually showing any footage. In German with subtitles.

I watched this movie purely because because it has Juliane Kohler in it. I had recently watched Downfall and thought the acting was excellent so obviously wanted to see more. I have a habit of watching a movie purely because of who's in it, and i rarely get disappointed.This movie was unlike anything i have seen before. It is such a great story and in the wrong hands it really could have ended up over sentimental and 'corny'. This movie was anything but. The characters were completely authentic and you sit watching the movie in complete empathy for them, even though i couldn't understand what they're saying! The character there are so many themes going on the movie but they piece together perfectly and keep you rooted to your seat. All i can say is i hope the book is translated into English because i have to read it, the perfect extension to a perfect movie.

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.

When you have a story as powerful as this it's almost impossible to strike no emotional tone. But Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa succeeds in just that through a mechanical adaptation to screen, mechanical direction and mechanical acting. There are few scenes that take this to a higher level and tons of missed opportunities. Take the grasshopper plague where the family more or less reunites or the whole African setting compared to Europe at that time: No parallels are drawn. Reading letters is not the way to convey heavy emotions to the audience. Caroline Link is the main suspect here because she fails in bringing this to a coherent movie. It's also overlong and moves unnecessarily slow probably to tell something about time passing, but again there are better cinematic ways of doing this.Beautiful panorama shots of the African landscape so I do advice to see this on the big screen if you can. And the two Reginas Lea Kurka and Karoline Eckertz are very adorable. Most intriguing character in the story is Jettel who is tossed around by her emotions and is in the beginning less an adult than her own child. The wider story here is about problems arising from adaptation to new circumstances.This movie received an Oscar for best foreign film. My guess is that had more to do with the subject than with the adaptation as shown by the undeserved one for De Aanslag / The Assault some years earlier. As usual the Academy had no interest in real film-making, as Ying Xiong / Hero was nominated in the same year and category.Germany's role in current cinema is diminished severely the last decade in favor of the Spanish and the Danish. Gone are the days of Fassbinder, Herzog or Schlöndorff. But luckily they still have the enormous talent of Tom Tykwer. Nothing mechanical about his movies.