This marvellously hued period drama set in Africa during World War II is guaranteed to have you a weeping with its portrayal of a Jewish family (the Reidlich’s) seeking refuge from the growing Nazi menace by moving to a Kenyan farm in 1938. The father Walter (Merals Ninidze), a former successful lawyer, is forced to take a job as a caretaker at the farm, wife Jettel (Julian Kohler) though is indifferent to her new life, not willing to come to terms with the major changes the family has undergone; It’s their daughter Regina though who is most quick at adapting to their new way of life.

A stunning movie Nowhere in Africa , although set during the second world war is not a movie about the war as such but one of change, WWII providing only the backdrop on which the story hangs. Writer director Caroline Link uses the camera with an experts eye, mixing in scenes of the harsh German winter and the beautiful Kenyan countryside.

Winner of the Oscar for best foreign film of 2003 Nowhere in Africa is pretty much a must see movie. Emotional, stirring and lingering long in the memory after the watching.

EXTRAS: An interview with director Caroline Link, an interview with the author of Nowhere in Africa Stefanie Zweig, photo gallery and trailers for the German and US releases of the movie.