Out Of Africa

Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance

Meryl Streep	Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
Robert Redford	Denys George Finch Hatton
Klaus Maria Brandauer	Baron Bror Blixen/Baron 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

Director	Sydney Pollack
Producer	Sydney Pollack; Terence A. Clegg
Writer	Kurt Luedtke; Judith Thurman
Cinematography	David Watkin
Musician	John Barry

Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) leaves the comfort of her home in Denmark for life on a coffee plantation in Africa. She is newly wed to Baron Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who seeks to cultivate coffee at heights in Kenya that had never been successfully attempted. The couple struggle to plant coffee and bring their meager crops to maturity against challenges including the weather, insects, and locals. They also struggle in their personal life. The couple's relationship becomes rockier than ever after Blixen discovers her husband has given her a sexually-transmitted disease. The relationship ends, leaving her to run the coffee plantation on her own. Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) woos the baroness and they embark on a passionate love affair.