Out of Africa 1985

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 160 min

genre: drama

theme: epic

director: Sydney Pollack

Score: 6 / 10

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.

Plot

Karen Blixen recalls her past life in Africa where she moved in 1913 as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman. After having been being spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, she asks his brother Baron Bror Blixen to get married out of mutual convenience, and they move to the vicinity of Nairobi, British East Africa.

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author	Kurt Luedtke
award	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Kenya
director	Sydney Pollack
editor	Fredric Steinkamp Pembroke Herring Sheldon Kahn William Steinkamp
events	Karen Blixen
genre	drama historical romance
keywords	a. e. housman beryl markham big-game hunter biplane breathtaking british east africa bror blixen bror von blixen-finecke build cattle ranch de havilland dh.60 moth denys finch hatton dying young east africa east africa protectorate end even farm first world war fly force german east africa gipsy moth great rift valley hunt kenya colony kĩkũyũ kikuyu people married militia mombasa muthaiga club muthaiga country club nairobi ngong hills old age out of africa past life patriarch rummage sale scout set up sexual relationship somali squat syphilis train station tsavo unmarried upper class world war young woman
musicBy	John Barry
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Kim Jorgensen
productionCompany	Mirage Enterprises
publisher	Universal Pictures
recordedAt	Kenya
theme	biographical epic romantic drama