Meryl Streep
Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
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Karen Blixen recalls her life in Africa, where she moved in 1913 as an unmarried, wealthy Dane. After having been spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, she asks his brother, with whom she is good friends, Baron Bror Blixen, to marry out of mutual convenience, and they move to the vicinity of Nairobi, British East Africa. Using her funds, he is ...
- Karen Blixen
- $31 million
- 1937
- United States
Dec 20, 1985 · Based on a true story, Out of Africa shows Karen Blixen's life as she adjusts to the African lifestyle while romancing Denys (Redford) and divorcing Bror (Klaus). The opening itself talks of the farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills and is voiced by Streep in a very distinctive accent.
- (84K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1985-12-20
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 touched her life there.
- Karen Blixen
- 416
- 1937
- 1937
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 ...
Aug 20, 2021 · Yes, ‘Out of Africa’ is based on a true story. The 1937 autobiographical work of the same name by Isak Dinesen (Karen’s penname) serves as the primary source of inspiration for the film.
Directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer), runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914.
A study of the life of Danish noblewoman and storyteller Karen Blixen ('Isak'), from her marriage and departure for Kenya in 1913 until her return to Denmark in 1931.
