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'Nowhere in Africa' strikes close to home.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Peachy Vibal-Guioguio
GIVEN the choice between reading a good book and watching a movie, I would rather read.
But one rainy weekday, in between two appointments in the same area, I decided to check out the movie schedules to kill time.
The thought of going inside the movie theater alone made me think twice. But it was either chucking my hard-earned cash on senseless and impulsive shopping, which I normally do alone, or spending a hundred pesos in a movie theater by myself, which I haven't done in my life.
The practical side of me won out. I bought a ticket and went inside an almost-empty theater.
"Nowhere in Africa" is based on the best-selling autobiographical novel of Stefanie Zweig. The movie, which won the 2002 Academy Award for best foreign language film, follows the travails of a young Jewish family from Germany as it adapts to a new lifestyle in Kenya after fleeing from the Nazi regime at the onset of World War II. The movie is a Holocaust film but it is far from being yet another war epic. It focuses on the members of the Redlich family-Walter (Georgian actor Merab Ninidze), Jettel (Julianne Kohler) and their daughter Regina (Leah Kurka as a child and Karoline Eckertx as an adolescent)-and their relationship with one another as well as with their African cook, Owuor (Sidede Onyulo).
- `For the monkey'.("Nowhere in Africa", "The Safety of Objects", "Laurel Canyon"...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Klawans, Stuart April 7, 2003 700+ words
...has focused intimately on Jettel and Walter Redlich and their young daughter...Link, who has decided that Jettel must also be the one who really...Onyulo). On top of that, Jettel succeeds as a farmer where Walter could not, gets to announce...
- We Had a Farm in Africa: A fresh, Oscar-worthy tale of the Jewish...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Ansen, David March 10, 2003 700+ words
...hadn't come along, Jettel and Walter Redlich would have considered...Jewish. But in 1938 Walter (Merab Ninidze), a...plains of Kenya, where Walter tries to reinvent himself...tenant farmer. When Jettel (Juliane Kohler) joins...
- Jewish family's tale of exile excels.(Scene)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James March 28, 2003 700+ words
...Europe's Jews. For Walter Redlich (the delicately...and desirable wife Jettel (the dazzling Juliane...attorney in Germany, Walter must adjust to field...For the pampered Jettel, who did not want...Germany, declares Walter, Jettel and Regina enemy...
- `Nowhere in Africa'.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) March 24, 2003 700+ words
...a lunar landscape. Jettel Redlich (Juliane Kohler...life. For his part Walter Redlich (the mesmerizing...lawyer," he says when Jettel recoils from his embrace...2 hours, 18 mins. Jettel Redlich/Juliane Kohler Walter Redlich/Merab Ninidze...
- `Nowhere in Africa'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rickey, Carrie March 27, 2003 700+ words
...a lunar landscape. Jettel Redlich (Juliane Kohler...life. For his part Walter Redlich (the mesmerizing...lawyer," he says when Jettel recoils from his embrace...2 hours, 18 mins. Jettel Redlich/Juliane Kohler Walter Redlich/Merab Ninidze...
- IN KENYA, HOLOCAUST ESCAPEES START OVER.(U)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) March 14, 2003 700+ words
...Three very lucky people, Walter (Georgian actor Merab Ninidze), Jettel (Juliane Kohler, whom...source of the problem between Walter and Jettel. She's used to a very...even under Hitler; when Walter, who went to Kenya ahead...
- 'Nowhere' travels somewhere special.(LIFE - ENTERTAINMENT)(MOVIES)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 28, 2003 700+ words
...let the magnificent visuals seep into the story. Jettel (Juliane Kohler) and Walter (Merab Ninidze) live a comfortable upper-crust...accept that his homeland has become a nightmare. Jettel's denial remains so steep that she packs a ball...
- Nowhere in Africa.(Movie Review)
- Magazine article from: Video Store Mullins, Eddie September 14, 2003 700+ words
...the Holocaust. Refugees abroad, Walter, his wife Jettel and his daughter Regina seek asylum...lifestyle is a long and arduous one. Walter, a former lawyer, must endure...brutish and callous landowners. Jettel, once a polished society woman...
