Title: Nowhere in |
Release Date: 2002 |
Nationality and Language: German |
Running time: 140 minutes |
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Distributor and Production Company: Zeitgeist |
Director; Writer: Caroline Link; based on a novel by Stefanie Zweig |
Producer: |
Cast: Jettel Redlich:
Juliane Kohler |
Technical: Very wide screen (like CinemaScope) |
Relevance to HPPUB site: “privilege” |
Review: This epic won the
2002 Oscar for best foreign language film. The story relates the emigration
of a Jewish family from Quickly the story becomes a social and political morality
tale. Jettel resents the adjustment and has trouble
accepting her husband’s fall in social status (he was a lawyer in But then Jettel becomes attached
to the land as the couple is moved around, kept as enemy prisoners by the
British at one point in a luxury hotel. At the end, it is Walter who wants to
go back to postwar As is common with dramatic European films, a very few
scenes are extremely sexually explicit, as in one scene where underage
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