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Overview

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Director:
Sydney Pollack
Writers:
Karen Blixen (books)
Judith Thurman (book)
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Release Date:
18 December 1985 (USA) more
Tagline:
Based on a true story.
Plot:
In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 7 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 17 nominations more
User Comments:
Excellently made, Streep wonderful, Redford miscast more (156 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
Stephen Kinyanjui ... Kinanjui
Michael Gough ... Lord Delamere
Suzanna Hamilton ... Felicity
Rachel Kempson ... Lady Belfield
Graham Crowden ... Lord Belfield
Leslie Phillips ... Sir Joseph
Shane Rimmer ... Belknap
Mike Bugara ... Juma
Job Seda ... Kanuthia
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Additional Details

Runtime:
160 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Swahili
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)
Filming Locations:
England, UK more

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Trivia:
In one scene,Karen Blixen, travels across dangerous terrain to bring supply wagons to her husband's regiment. During the night, a lion attacks one of the oxen and Karen tries to fight it off with a whip. Streep was assured that the lion would be tethered by one of its back legs so he couldn't get too close. When the scene was shot, the lion had no restraint. The lion got closer than Streep anticipated; the fear on her face is real. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Karen's champagne glass is empty when she slaps a rude man at the New Year's Eve party. Denys takes her arm and pulls her immediately onto the dance floor, but her glass has champagne in it again while they dance. more
Quotes:
Karen Blixen: Oh! get away from there! Shoo Shoo!
Denys: Shoo?
Karen Blixen: Oh! That's all my crystal, my Limoges.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Golden Girls: Melodrama (#6.19)" (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A (K.622) more

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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Excellently made, Streep wonderful, Redford miscast, 22 October 2006
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Author: amhealy from Australia

Fifty years ago I was living in the Kenya highlands, only a few miles from the old Blixen farm. Not a great deal had changed since the 1920s, the period of the movie, which manages a reasonable re-creation. However, the background is unlikely to mean much to Americans, only confirming unreal stereotypes of the colonial British. Meryl Steep, as we have come to expect, is superb in the part; and in 2003 she co-narrated a wonderful documentary on the remarkable Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), to whom in fact she bears some physical resemblance. Robert Redford is badly miscast, and why the producers didn't get one of many superb English actors for the part I can't imagine. As a love story well told in what to most people will be an exotic setting, beautifully photographed, it should be highly rated, justifying its many awards.

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