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The movie is based on the life and writings of Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who, despairing that she would be single forever, married her lover’s brother, moved out to Kenya in East Africa, ran a coffee plantation on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and later, when the plantation was bankrupt and the dream was finshed, wrote books about her experiences under the name Isak Dinesan.
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. Out of Africa is a great movie to look at, breathtakingly filmed on location. It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology. 90.
Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen ), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources.
- Karen Blixen
- 1937
Out of Africa: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen. In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
- (87K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1985-12-20
trop long, j’ai du m’y reprendre à 5 fois au moins. Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
- (37.6K)
- Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford. Denys George Finch Hatton. Meryl Streep. Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen. Klaus Maria Brandauer. Baron Bror Blixen/Baron Hans Blixen. Michael Kitchen. Berkeley Cole. Malick Bowens.
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Golden Globe Award (1986) Out of Africa, American-British film, released in 1985, that was based on events in the life of Karen Blixen-Finecke, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. It starred Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and was known for its beautiful cinematography. The movie won seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture.