Academy Awards 2003 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film
Bavarian Film Awards 2002 - Won - Best Production
Bavarian Film Awards 2003 - Won - Audience Award
Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema 2002 - Won - Best Film
Academy Awards 2003 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film
Bavarian Film Awards 2002 - Won - Best Production
Bavarian Film Awards 2003 - Won - Audience Award
Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema 2002 - Won - Best Film
Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema 2002 - Won - Best Screenplay
German Film Awards 2002 - Outstanding Actress
German Film Awards 2002 - Won - Outstanding Cinematography
German Film Awards 2002 - Won - Outstanding Direction
German Film Awards 2002 - Won - Outstanding Feature Film
German Film Awards 2002 - Won - Outstanding Music
German Film Awards 2002 - Won - Outstanding Supporting Actor
Golden Globe Awards 2003 - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film
Guild of German Art House Cinemas Awards 2002 - Won - Best German Film
Hamptons International Film Festival 2002 - Won - Best Fiction Feature Film
High Falls Film Festival 2002 - Won - Best Feature
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2002 - Nominated - Crystal Globe
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2002 - Won - FIPRESCI Prize
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2002 - Won - Special Prize of the Jury
St. Louis International Film Festival 2002 - Won - Interfaith Award for a Feature Film
St. Louis International Film Festival 2002 - Won - International Film Award
Valladolid International Film Festival 2002 - Nominated - Golden Spike
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Film SynopsisWalter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the increasing dangers of remaining in Germany, Walter seeks exile on a farm in Kenya, while his socially prominent wife, Jettel (Juliane Koehler), and his young daughter, Regina (Lea Kurka), stay behind, as does his father, Max (Gerd Heinz), and Jettel's sister, Kaethe (Regine Zimmermann). In time, as the pogroms against the Jews increase in Germany, Jettel and Regina join Walter in Kenya, but the transition is not easy for Walter, who is still learning the nuts and bolts of running the farm (and discovers that Germans are not welcomed by the British settlers in Kenya), or Jettel, who is not accustomed to physical labor and resents having to help with the farming. Get Involved |
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Runtime:
141 min.
Genres:
Drama
Foreign Language
Country:
GERMANY
Language:
English/American
Color:
Color
Certification:
R
Plot Summary
While Regina at first finds her new surroundings alienating and unfamiliar, she soon becomes fascinated with the rugged beauty of Kenya and becomes fast friends with Owuor (Sidede Onyulo), who serves as the family's cook. In time, Germany invades Africa, and Walter finds himself in a British internment camp; Jettel and Regina also are captured, but Jettel uses her sexual allure to persuade a British officer to arrange for Walter to be put in charge of another farm, and Regina is sent to a boarding school for girls. After the war, the Redlichs must decide whether to remain in Kenya or to return to the country that would have persecuted them.
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Directed by
Caroline Link
Produced by
Bernd Eichinger
Peter Herrmann
Michael Weber
Writing credits
Caroline Link
Cast
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