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Out of Africa
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Release Date:
18 December 1985 (USA) more
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Based on a true story.
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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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Won 7 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 17 nominations more
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Their Best Role: Meryl Streep
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One of the Best Movies I have ever seen more (157 total)

Cast

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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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160 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)
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Meryl Streep developed her accent by listening to actual recordings of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) reading her works. more
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Continuity: When Karen is about to shoot the lion, she has blood on the right side of her mouth from biting her lip. Afterwards, when Denys wipes her mouth, the blood is on the left side. more
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Karen Blixen: [Voiceover] I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold. more
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One of the Best Movies I have ever seen, 15 March 2000
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Author: luccastrel from Miami, FL



OUT OF AFRICA is based on the memoirs of Danish writer Karen Blixen (pen name, Isak Dinesen) in a coffee plantation in present day Kenya. It explains how this brave woman overcomes the stereotype of a dainty, colonial British lady by running the coffee farm while her husband Bror Blixen (Brandauer) led a life of hunting and infidelities. Meryl Streep is great as Karen Blixen. She manages to maintain the realistic Danish accent through the whole film. Redford is great as Denys Finch-Hatton, the Etonian hunter who keeps companion in her loneliest and hardest. But the real attraction of the film is he outstanding photography of the African landscape together with the sweeping John Barry soundtrack that is probably the most beautiful movie soundtrack of the 1980s. OUT OF AFRICA will be regarded as Sydney Pollack's asterpiece and a Classic of our times.

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