Afrika, mon amour (2007– )

This Out of Africa style three-part movie deals with a courageous woman, who moves to Africa to flee her past. Berlin, 1914: When Katharina von Strahlberg discovers that her husband Richard... See full summary »

Stars:

Iris Berben, Robert Atzorn, Gerald Alexander Held

Cast

Credited cast:
Iris Berben	...	Katharina von Strahlberg
Robert Atzorn	...	Richard von Strahlberg
Gerald Alexander Held	...	Heinrich von Strahlberg
Pierre Besson	...	Victor March
Matthias Habich	...	Dr. Franz Lukas
Benjamin Strecker	...	Georg von Strahlberg
August Schmölzer	...	Sebastian Hofmann
Bettina Zimmermann	...	Tanja
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carmen-Maja Antoni	...	Reiseschwester
Thomas Arnold	...	Thomas Hofmann
Tatjana Blacher	...	Gerda
Thomas Darchinger
Oliver Elias
Andreas Euler
Catherine H. Flemming	...	Martha von Strahlberg

Storyline

This Out of Africa style three-part movie deals with a courageous woman, who moves to Africa to flee her past. Berlin, 1914: When Katharina von Strahlberg discovers that her husband Richard had an affair with her sister-in-law Martha, she leaves him after stealing some important plans and photos of East Africa and travels to Dar es Salaam with one of Richard's business partners. In the German colony, she learns that nobody wants to employ her because of her husband's power, but she draws new courage from meeting Franz Lukas, a doctor, and Victor March, a lively Scotsman...

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Plot Keywords:

tv mini series

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

8 January 2007 (Germany)

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

€10,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blue Sky Films, MOOVIE the art of entertainment GmbH

Technical Specs

Runtime:

270 min 270 min (3 parts)

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Colourful, interesting, suspenseful, big emotion epic drama about the fate of a courageous women

I liked the story about the courageous Katharina von Strahlberg very much. Her adventurous fate in Africa at the outset and during WWI is partly a "who done it" criminal case, partly a love story and a partly family affairs story. Although the story has to deal with many different characters, the main plot would develop a clearly understandable story line. All the main figures receive a good deal of space in the movie to develop in a colorful manner. The alternation of tension climaxes and releases is felicitous. The plot turnarounds keep unpredictable until the very end. Although all the actors would do an excellent job, a special breath of fresh air was the amiable figure of the Scotsman Victor March (excellently played by Pierre Besson), who comes from old Europe and finally finds his peace with a near-natural life in Africa.