Overview
Watching “Nowhere in Africa” (2001), dir. Caroline Link
The movie is of 2001. The plot plays in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
VIEWING QUESTIONS (your observations are not to be submitted; these questions help you focus and may inspire your contributions to the discussion and then your written film analysis):
•Discrimination? Racism?
•White German characters’ adjustment to the different cultural environment?
- attitudes vis-à-vis Africa(ns)?
- sense of home?
•Owuor (the African cook)? How is this part/character constructed?
•Development of the couple (parents)?
•Was the film neglecting the Holocaust?
•Acting?
Main characters: Owuor/cook, Regina/daughter, Walter/father, Jettl/mother, Walter Suesskind.
Warning: Sexually explicit scenes.