Meryl Streep
Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
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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
Dec 20, 1985 · 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.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1985-12-20
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.
- Pat Bauer
In this hunter, she finds a spirit equal to her own, which is eventually the undoing of their relationship. "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.
Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) travels to Africa to join her husband, Bror (Klaus Maria Brandauer), who instead spends their money on a coffee ...
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- Sydney Pollack
- PG
- Meryl Streep
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Synopsis. [Out Of Africa] A well-heeled Danish lady (Meryl Streep) goes to an English colony in Africa and buys 1000 acres. Her beau dies and to avoid loneliness she proposes marriage to his gentleman (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but rascally brother whom she got along well with as a friend. He agrees, in no small part because she has money.
DT433.54 .D56 1992. Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who ...
