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  • Meine ferne Familie (2011)
  • 87 min | Documentary
Meine ferne Familie (2011)
87 min | Documentary
So Close And Yet So Far (Meine ferne Familie) A film by Helmut Schulzeck Our son is a mzungu, a white European and for this reason only a millionaire or at least quite wealthy. It's inexhaustible prejudices like this that film director ...See moreSo Close And Yet So Far (Meine ferne Familie) A film by Helmut Schulzeck Our son is a mzungu, a white European and for this reason only a millionaire or at least quite wealthy. It's inexhaustible prejudices like this that film director Helmut Schulzeck has to cope with in his auto-biographical documentary "So Close And Yet So Far". This documentary deals mainly with the relationship of Helmut and his Kenyan father-in-law Papa Wangechi. Papa Wangechi's family lives in the Kenyan Highlands. Helmut and his wife Wangechi go to visit them for a few weeks every year. And for this occasion Papa and his family have numerous material wishes or rather needs. Helmut instead wants to belong to them to all of them. Helmut married his wife Wangechi together with four children from her first marriage plus her extended family in Kenya. He did this without asking her family for permission. By doing so Helmut acted against customary law and has therefore established a case which is doomed to last for years. Written by Helmut Schulzeck See less
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Director
Helmut Schulzeck (documentary director)
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Helmut Schulzeck (documentary written by)
Producer
Helmut Schulzeck (producer)
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Hans Albrecht Lusznat (director of photography) | Helmut Schulzeck
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Ceasar Nyumba Lovejoy
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Oct 25, 2011 (Germany)

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