Nowhere going elsewhere

National | Nowhere in Africa (unrated) is a German film that won this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. | Andrew Coffin

Nowhere in Africa (unrated) is a German film that won this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was little seen prior to the awards ceremony, but is now playing in select art-house theaters.

The film is absorbing from start to finish, but it's not without its faults. Rather than taking the tone of a grand Swiss Family Robinson-type family adventure, Nowhere in Africa is primarily a small, psychological film, painted on a vast African canvas.

Nowhere is a majestically shot tale of a German Jewish family that flees their homeland for Africa in 1938, anticipating the Nazi horror that will soon be visited upon Jews. A lawyer in Germany, Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) becomes a farm manager in Kenya—the only work available to him. Walter's wife Jette (Juliane Koehler) reluctantly follows her husband with their daughter Regina.

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