Kulturelle Filmförderung Schleswig-Holstein

Germany 2007
by Helmut Schulzeck

The film "You Are My Africa. A Black And White Love Story" is an autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker Helmut Schulzeck and his Kenyan wife Wangechi Schulzeck. For Helmut Africa had mainly been Cape Town for a number of years. It was there where in December 2003 he met Wangechi Njenga from Kenya. She became "his Africa". The film "You Are My Africa" tells the story of a love relationship with the two partners gradually acknowledging each other. It shows how a personal adventure dev

Germany 1999
by Helmut Schulzeck

"Once upon a time, that's how fairy tales begin - these were sometimes my mother's closing words when she was telling us children about her youth in Nidden, and what she meant was that it was over. How does a person recall things if she is suddenly obliged to leave her home when still young, and notpermitted to return for fifty years, and precisely what does she recall? Does she feel homesick for her youth? The film gives very personal answers to these questions, and yet they may be applicable t