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Out of Africa is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sydney Pollack released in USA on 20 december 1985 with Robert Redford
Out of Africa (1985)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 december 1985
Length 2h30
Directed by Sydney Pollack
OriginUSA
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating71%
Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch Hatton; and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film included Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole; Malick Bowens as Farah; Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief; Michael Gough as Lord Delamere; Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model/actress Iman as Mariammo.
Synopsis
The story begins in 1913 in Denmark, when Karen Dinesen (a wealthy but unmarried woman) asks her friend Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) to enter into a marriage of convenience with her. Although Bror is a member of the aristocracy, he is no longer financially secure; therefore, he agrees to the marriage, and the two of them plan to move to Africa to begin a dairy farm.Actors
Robert Redford
(Denys George Finch Hatton)
Meryl Streep
(Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen)
Klaus Maria Brandauer
(Baron Bror Blixen/Baron Hans Blixen)
Michael Gough
(Lord Delamere)
Malick Bowens
(Farah)
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