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Nowhere in Africa

2001 · Movie · 141 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer85%as of 2021-10-05
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.5/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic72/100as of 2024-01-27

What it is

Nowhere in Africa is a 2001 German drama film that was written and directed by Caroline Link. The screenplay is based on the 1995 autobiographical novel of the same name by Stefanie Zweig. It tells the story of the life in Kenya of a German-Jewish family that emigrated there in 1938 to escape persecution in Nazi Germany.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
German

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