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Du bist mein Afrika. Eine schwarz-weiße Liebesgeschichte (2008)
79 min | Documentary, Biography

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Du bist mein Afrika. Eine schwarz-weiße Liebesgeschichte (2008)

79 min | Documentary, Biography

The film "You are my Africa. A Black and White Love Story" is an autobiographical documentary film about the filmmaker Helmut Schulzeck and his Kenyan wife Wangechi. Africa was for him mostly for years Cape Town. There he met one day the ...See moreThe film "You are my Africa. A Black and White Love Story" is an autobiographical documentary film about the filmmaker Helmut Schulzeck and his Kenyan wife Wangechi. Africa was for him mostly for years Cape Town. There he met one day the Kenyan woman Wangechi Njenga. She became his Africa. The film "You are my Africa" tells the story of a love and an approach. It captures a gradual development and a adventure, in which two cultures clash and show only a limited understanding of and dealing with each other. How does Wangechi deal with Germany and how does Helmut with Kenya? How does Germany deal with Wangechi and how does Kenya with Helmut? The film gives answers to these questions at a personal level. The locations are Germany, Cape Town and the Kenyan Highlands in the Rift Valley Area. Helmut and Wangechi got married in April 2006, during Wangechi's second stay in Germany. No one of Wangechi's extended family in Kenya and Cape Town knew of this marriage until in December 2006 / January 2007 the two of them visited for the first time Wangechi's family in Kenya. Helmut had broken with the custom of proposing to the bride's father first and to offer him a handsome dowry in return for his wife. How will he be received by her family and how will he handle this precarious situation? The film watches very intimately and close there the new German-Kenyan family life in the countryside. Especially Helmut is watched how he handles now the new situation. Among other things thereby Kenyan prejudices about "the rich white man" collides with Helmut's excessive demands with the life there. Consistently Helmut is faced with a strange life. He realizes this strange way of African life at every turn. He assimilates this culture shock very slowly and stresses in doing that his wife. But this marriage remains totally naturally for Wangechi, when she says, "You are my husband". Written by Helmut Schulzeck See less