Out of Africa

feature film, 1985

DIRECTED BY: Sydney Pollack

Out of Africa

CAST:
Meryl Streep (Karen Blixen),
Robert Redford (Denys Finch Hatton),
Klaus Maria Brandauer (Bror Blixen / Hans Blixen),
Michael Kitchen (Berkeley Cole),
Malick Bowens (Farah),
Joseph Thiaka (Kamante)

SCRIPT:
Kurt Luedtke (prema knjigama Karen Blixen,
Judith Thurman i Errola Trzebinskog)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
David Watkin

Synopsis:
This is the biography of the writer Karen Blixen about her life in Africa from 1913 until her return to Denmark in 1931. After her marriage to Baron Blixen, Karen moves to Kenya to a coffee plantation. Her husband is often away hunting and sleeping with loose women while she is left on her own to take care of the plantation and trying to build relationships with the locals. Soon she meets the hunter and adventurer Denis Finch Hatton.

35 mm, color, 150 min