Directed by Caroline Link • Drama • 2002 • Germany • English, German, Swahili with English subtitles
Starring Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich

A love story spanning two continents, this true tale of a Jewish family who fled the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya won the 2003 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel and their five-year-old daughter each deal with the harsh realities of their new life as they learn to cherish their time in Africa.