Dec-21 11:10pm SBS2-TV: Movie – Nowhere in Africa
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, this film is based on a true story.
Walter and Jettel Redlich and their five-year-old daughter, Regina are a Jewish family who have fled Nazi Germany and their previously comfortable existence for a remote farm in Kenya. Their new life in Africa proves a difficult change, except for Regina, who finds a friend in Owuor the cook, settles in immediately and feels an affinity with the place. Directed by Caroline Link and stars Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler and Matthias Habich. (From Germany, in German and Swahili, English subtitles) (Drama) (2001) (Rpt) M (S) WS