Caroline Link, director of Exit Marrakech. Photo: Adrià Guxens |
When Caroline Link
(Bad Nauheim, Germany, 1964) started her studies at the University of
Television and Film in Munich she couldn’t imagine that only fifteen years later
she would win an Oscar. It would be for her film Nowhere in Africa (2001), a very particular portrait of a Jewish
family that moves to Kenya to escape from the Nazi regime. With no doubt, the
African continent has caught her, since she has now come back to shoot Exit Marrakech, a film that talks about
a young man (Samuel Schneider) who decides to experience a liberating trip to
get to know himself better and break the chains that tie him to his father (Ulrich
Tukur).