- Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack, the film brilliantly captures the time and setting in which it is set, offering outstanding performances by Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer, as well as gorgeous visuals and plenty of beautiful music. Out of Africa follows the life of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), an incredibly strong-willed woman who moves with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) from Denmark to run a coffee plantation in Kenya around 1914. To her amazement, she soon finds that she has fallen in love not only with her new home and the locals, but especially with a mysterious British adventurer and idealist (Robert Redford). Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Out of Africa is masterfully shot and offers one of the greatest stories in cinema history...