Join our conversation with Oscar-winning director Caroline Link in discussion about two of her award-winning films. Link explores the plight of German Jewish refugees during the Nazi era from very different perspectives.
Q&A with Caroline Link
Sunday, November 15 at Noon
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, an epic film with the grand dramatic sweep and exquisite visuals of an earlier cinematic era, is based on Judith Kerr’s best-selling novel. Set in 1933 Berlin, the film centers on 9-year-old Anna, who isn’t concerned by the societal changes and sense of growing dread as Hitler rises to power, until own father—a prominent Jewish journalist and vocal critic of Adolf Hitler—goes missing. As Anna and her family move to Switzerland, and then to Paris and London, she experiences family disruption, dislocation, and assimilation into a new life. Caroline Link’s film provides a touching portrait of the experience of German Jews who fled the country before the war.
Nowhere in Africa, Link’s 2002 Academy Award-winning film, follows a Jewish family who fled Germany in 1938 to work on a farm in Kenya, and is a returning festival favorite. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, the Redlich family must deal with the harsh realities of their new lives as Jewish refugees in Africa. As the war rages on the other side of the world, the family’s relationships to their new environment become increasingly more complicated. This beautiful film is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Stefanie Zweig.
