SBS 2 will show two German movies of a very different kind on Tuesday, 21 December.
7 Zwerge, Maenner allein im Wald is a comedy from 2004, starring Germany's comedian Otto Waalkes and Nina Hagen as the evil queen and her daughter Cosma Shiva Hagen as Schneewitchen.
The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.
Nirgendwo in Afrika is a drama about a German Jewish refugee family who moves to Kenya and tries to adjust to farm life in 1930's Africa .
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Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, this film is based on a true story. Walter and Jettel Redlich and their five-year-old daughter, Regina are a Jewish family who have fled Nazi Germany and their previously comfortable existence for a remote farm in Kenya. Their new life in Africa proves a difficult change, except for Regina, who finds a friend in Owuor the cook, settles in immediately and feels an affinity with the place.
