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Out of Africa ( film ) - wikipedia Out of Africa ( film ) Jump to : navigation , search <Th_colspan="2"> Out of Africa <Td_colspan="2"> Theatrical release poster Directed by Sydney Pollack Produced by Sydney Pollack Kim Jorgensen Screenplay by Kurt Luedtke Based on Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Isak Dinesen : The Life of a Story Teller by Judith Thurman Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinski Starring Robert Redford Meryl Streep Klaus Maria Brandauer Music by John Barry Cinematography David Watkin Edited by Fredric Steinkamp William Steinkamp Pembroke Herring Sheldon Kahn Production company Mirage Enterprises Distributed by Universal Pictures Release date December 18 , 1985 ( 1985 - 12 - 18 ) Running time 161 minutes Country United States Language English Swahili Budget $28 million Box office $128.5 million Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack , and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep . The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen ( the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen ) , which was published in 1937 , with additional material from Dinesen 's book Shadows on the Grass and other sources . This film received 28 film awards , including seven Academy Awards . The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke , and directed by the American Sydney Pollack . Streep played Karen Blixen ; Redford played Denys Finch Hatton ; and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen . Others in the film included Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole ; Malick Bowens as Farah ; Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief ; Michael Gough as Lord Delamere ; Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity , and the model / actress Iman as Mariammo . It was filmed in 1984 . Contents ( hide ) 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Differences between the film and real life events 5 Soundtrack 6 Technical notes 7 Reception 8 Awards and honours 9 See also 10 References 11 External links Plot ( edit ) Karen Blixen recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 she , as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman , is spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover , and moves to Nairobi , British East Africa to complete a marriage of convenience with her lover 's brother , Baron Bror Blixen ( Klaus Maria Brandauer ) . Bror has gone through his money and is reduced to seducing the servant girls ; the couple plans to establish a dairy cattle farm . En route to Nairobi , Blixen meets Denys Finch Hatton ( Robert Redford ) , a local big - game hunter . It is Farah that greets her at the train station ; Bror is nowhere to be found . So , at Muthaiga Club , she enters the men 's bar to ask for him , and she is asked to leave . Karen and Bror marry before the day is out in a `` long '' ceremony . As Baroness Blixen she learns that Bror has changed their agreed upon plan , to instead establish a coffee farm . However , his interest is more in running big game hunting on safari than at management of the farm . Eventually , Karen does develop feelings for Bror , but she contracts syphilis from him during First World War . Bror agrees to manage the farm while she takes treatment ( Salvarsan ) in Denmark . When she returns , he resumes working on safari . They begin to live separately . The relationship between Karen and Denys develops , and he comes to live with her . Karen and Bror get a divorce . When Denys invites a mutual woman friend on safari , Karen comes to realize that Denys does not want the same type of relationship she seeks . He assures her that when he is with her he wants to be with her , and that a marriage is immaterial to their relationship . He moves out . The farm eventually yields a good harvest , but a fire puts Karen in financial straits . Karen prepares for her departure from Kenya Colony to Denmark by appealing for land for her Kikuyu workers to allow them to stay together , and by selling at a rummage sale the things that she will not take with her to Denmark . Before the rummage sale , Denys visits the empty house and Karen comments that the house should have been so all along ; Denys says that he was just getting used to her things . They agree that the coming Friday Denys will fly her to Mombasa ; Karen to continue on to Denmark . Friday comes ; Bror arrives to tell her that Denys ' biplane has crashed and burned . Following the funeral , she goes to Denys ' club to complete arrangements for managing any mail that in her absence may arrive ; the members extend to her a toast . At the train station she says goodbye to Farah , then turns back to ask him to say her name . Karen later became an author and a storyteller , writing about her experiences in Africa , though she never was to return . Cast ( edit ) Meryl Streep -- Baroness Karen von Blixen ( née Dinesen ) Robert Redford -- Denys Finch Hatton Klaus Maria Brandauer -- Baron Bror von Blixen & Baron Hans von Blixen Michael Kitchen -- Berkeley Cole Shane Rimmer -- Belknap Malick Bowens -- Farah Aden Joseph Thiaka -- Kamante Stephen Kinyanjui -- Chief Kinanjui Michael Gough -- Hugh Cholmondeley , Lord Delamere Suzanna Hamilton -- Felicity Spurway Rachel Kempson -- Sarah , Lady Belfield Graham Crowden -- Henry , Lord Belfield Benny Young -- Minister Leslie Phillips -- Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne Annabel Maule -- Lady Byrne Iman -- Mariammo Production ( edit ) The film tells the story as a series of six loosely coupled episodes from Karen 's life , intercut with her narration . The final two narrations , the first a reflection on Karen 's experiences in Kenya and the second a description of Finch Hatton 's grave , were taken from her book Out of Africa , while the others have been written for the film in imitation of her very lyrical writing style . The pace of this film is often rather slow , reflecting Blixen 's book , `` Natives dislike speed , as we dislike noise ... '' Klaus Maria Brandauer was director Sydney Pollack 's only choice for Bror Blixen , even having trouble to pick a replacement when it appeared that Brandauer 's schedule would prevent him from participating . Robert Redford became Finch Hatton once Redford thought he had a charm no British actor could convey . Meryl Streep landed the part by showing up for her meeting with the director wearing a low - cut blouse and a push - up bra , as Pollack had originally thought the actress did not have enough sex appeal for the role . Out of Africa was filmed using descendants of several people of the Kikuyu tribe who are named in the book , near the actual Ngong Hills outside Nairobi , but not inside of Karen 's ( second ) three - bedroom house `` Mbagathi '' ( now the Karen Blixen Museum ) . The filming took place in her first house `` Mbogani '' , close to the museum , which is a dairy today . A substantial part of the filming took place in the Scott house , which is still occupied , and a recreation of 1910s Nairobi built across a year . The scenes depicting the Government House were shot at Nairobi School with the administration block providing a close replica of British colonial governors ' residences . The scenes set in Denmark were actually filmed in Surrey , England . Differences between the film and real life events ( edit ) This film quotes the start of the book , `` I had a farm in Africa , at the foot of the Ngong Hills '' ( p. 3 ) , and Karen recites , `` He prayeth well that loveth well both man and bird and beast '' from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , which becomes the epitaph inscribed on Finch Hatton 's grave marker ( p. 370 ) . This film differs significantly from the book , leaving out the devastating locust swarm , some local shootings , and Karen 's writings about the German army . The production also downplays the size of her 4,000 acres ( 16 km ) farm , with 800 Kikuyu workers and an 18 - oxen wagon . Scenes show Karen as owning only one dog , but actually , she had two similar dogs named Dawn and Dusk . The film also takes liberties with Denys and Karen 's romance . They met at a hunting club , not in the plains . Denys was away from Kenya for two years on military assignment in Egypt , which is not mentioned . Denys took up flying and began to lead safaris after he moved in with Karen . The film also ignores the fact that Karen was pregnant at least once with Finch Hatton 's child , but she suffered from miscarriages . Furthermore , Denys was an English aristocrat , but this fact was downplayed by the hiring of the actor Robert Redford , an inarguably all - American actor who had previously worked with Pollack . When Redford accepted the contract to play , he did so fully intending to play him as an Englishman . Pollack , however , felt an English accent would be distracting for the audience , and told Redford to use his real accent . In fact , Redford reportedly had to re-record some of his lines from early takes in the filming , in which he still spoke with a trace of English accent . The title scenes of the film show the main railway , from Mombasa to Nairobi , as travelling through the Kenyan Rift Valley , on the steep back side of the actual Ngong Hills . However , the real railway track is located on the higher , opposite side of the Ngong Hills . The passenger car was actually a small combination office / sleeper that was originally used by supervisors during the building of the Uganda Railway and was the actual car from which a man was taken and killed by a marauding lioness . The film shows Karen reciting from the poem `` To an Athlete Dying Young '' at Finch Hatton 's funeral , but there is no mention of this in the book . Soundtrack ( edit ) <Th_colspan="2"> Out of Africa <Th_colspan="2"> Soundtrack album by John Barry Released 1986 Recorded 1985 Genre soundtrack Length 12 at 33 : 27 18 at 38 : 42 Label MCA Records Varèse Sarabande The music for Out of Africa was composed and conducted by veteran English composer John Barry . The score included a number of outside pieces such as Mozart 's Clarinet Concerto and African traditional songs . The soundtrack garnered Barry an Oscar for Best Original Score and sits in fifteenth place in the American Film Institute 's list of top 25 American film scores . The soundtrack was released through MCA Records and features 12 tracks of score at a running time of just over thirty - three minutes . A rerecording conducted by Joel McNeely and performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was released in 1997 through Varèse Sarabande and features eighteen tracks of score at a running time just under thirty - nine minutes . MCA Records release `` Main Title ( I Had a Farm in Africa ) '' ( 3 : 14 ) `` I 'm Better at Hello ( Karen 's Theme I ) '' ( 1 : 18 ) `` Have You Got a Story For Me '' ( 1 : 14 ) `` Mozart Clarinet Concerto K622 '' Adagio ( 2 : 49 ) by Jack Brymer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Neville Marriner `` Under the Sun '' ( 4 : 21 ) `` Safari '' ( 2 : 44 ) `` Karen 's Journey / Siyawe '' ( 4 : 50 ) contains traditional African music `` Flying Over Africa '' ( 3 : 25 ) `` I Had a Compass from Karen ( Karen 's Theme II ) '' ( 2 : 31 ) `` Alone on the Farm '' ( 1 : 56 ) `` Let the Rest of the World Go By '' ( 3 : 17 ) -- by Ernest R. Ball and J. Keirn Brennan `` If I Know a Song of Africa ( Karen 's Theme III ) '' ( 2 : 12 ) `` End Title ( You Are Karen ) '' ( 4 : 01 ) Varèse Sarabande Re-Recording `` I Had a Farm ( Main Title ) '' ( 3 : 12 ) `` Alone on the Farm '' ( 1 : 00 ) `` Karen and Denys '' ( 0 : 48 ) `` Have You Got a Story For Me '' ( 1 : 21 ) `` I 'm Better at Hello '' ( 1 : 24 ) `` Under the Sun '' ( 4 : 21 ) Mozart Clarinet Concerto K622 '' Adagio ( 7 : 39 ) by Jack Brymer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Neville Marriner `` Karen 's Journey Starts '' ( 3 : 41 ) `` Karen 's Journey Ends '' ( 1 : 00 ) `` Karen 's Return from Border '' ( 1 : 33 ) `` Karen Builds a School '' ( 1 : 19 ) `` Harvest '' ( 2 : 02 ) `` Sunset '' ( 7 : 19 ) `` Love '' ( 8 : 16 ) `` Safari '' ( 2 : 35 ) `` Karen 's Journey / Siyawe '' ( 4 : 50 ) `` I Had a Compass from Karen ( Karen 's Theme II ) '' ( 2 : 31 ) `` Flight Over Africa '' ( 2 : 41 ) `` Beach at Night '' ( 0 : 58 ) `` You 'll Keep Me Then '' ( 0 : 58 ) `` Let the Rest of the World Go By '' ( 3 : 17 ) `` If I Knew a Song of Africa '' ( 2 : 23 ) `` You Are Karen M'Sabu '' ( 1 : 17 ) `` Petting my Cow ( 4 : 34 ) `` Out of Africa ( End Credits ) '' ( 2 : 49 ) Technical notes ( edit ) In the Director 's Notes on the DVD of Pollack 's 2005 film The Interpreter , Pollack himself stated that he filmed Out of Africa and his later films of that decade in 1.85 : 1 widescreen ; and that it `` ... probably was one I should have had in widescreen '' ( i.e. anamorphic 2.39 : 1 widescreen ) . In his director 's notes , Pollack stated that prior to the filming of Out of Africa , he made motion pictures exclusively in the anamorphic 2.39 : 1 widescreen format and style , and that he did not resume the anamorphic 2.39 : 1 widescreen format until his movie , The Interpreter , in 2005 . By 1985 , there were no steam locomotives still operational in Kenya . Therefore , rather than return one to operating condition as was done to three , twenty years later , the producers and their advisors decided to assemble a simulated steam powered train using a non operational steam locomotive that was , instead , pushed from behind by an available diesel locomotive . The diesel was coupled directly behind the steam locomotive and disguised as a box car . Due to mechanical problems , this covering had to be disassembled and reassembled to effect repairs during filming . The steam locomotive burned rubber tires in its firebox for smoke effect , and liquid oxygen was used as an oxidizer to give the appearance of steam escaping from the cylinders of the originally coal - fired locomotive . The steam locomotive , a former Tanganyika Railways DL class 4 - 8 - 0 number 301 built by Beyer Peacock in England -- and the passenger cars used during the filming -- have been put on display in the Nairobi Railway Museum . The passenger car used by Streep 's character was not a standard car but actually a supervisor 's car from the days of the building of the East Africa Railway . This is exactly the same car mentioned in Patterson 's `` The Man - eaters of Tsavo '' in which two of the three occupants were killed by a marauding lion . While formerly displayed in the museum , in its original colors and bearing a plaque referring to the event , the car is currently displayed using the later color scheme , as seen in the film . Due to daily rail traffic , the train footage had to be shot on an old spur line that had not been used for some thirty years . Among the various props used in the movie , the compass that Redford gives to Streep was Denys Finch Hatton 's actual compass . Unfortunately , it was stolen during the production . As guns ( real , toys and replicas ) are illegal in Kenya , Redford 's papier mache pistol was confiscated at the end of production and has since been seen as a rental item in subsequent stage productions in Nairobi . The film also features a de Havilland DH. 60 Moth in the later scenes , the same type of airplane flown by Finch Hatton in real life . Reception ( edit ) Out of Africa has received mixed reviews from critics , where today the film currently holds a 56 % `` rotten '' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews with the consensus : `` Though lensed with stunning cinematography and featuring a pair of winning performances from Meryl Streep and Robert Redford , Out of Africa suffers from excessive length and glacial pacing . '' Out of Africa is one of only a handful of films -- the others are The Greatest Show on Earth , Cimarron , The Broadway Melody , and Cavalcade -- that won the Academy Award for Best Picture but currently have `` rotten '' ( below 60 % ) scores on Rotten Tomatoes . Awards and honours ( edit ) Academy Awards The film won seven Academy Awards and was nominated in a further four categories . Won Best Picture ( Sydney Pollack ) Best Director ( Sydney Pollack ) Best Art Direction ( Stephen Grimes , Josie MacAvin ) Best Cinematography ( David Watkin ) Best Adapted Screenplay ( Kurt Luedtke ) Best Original Score ( John Barry ) Best Sound ( Chris Jenkins , Gary Alexander , Larry Stensvold , Peter Handford ) Nominated Best Actress ( Meryl Streep ) Best Supporting Actor ( Klaus Maria Brandauer ) Costume Design ( Milena Canonero ) Film Editing ( Fredric Steinkamp , William Steinkamp , Pembroke Herring , and Sheldon Kahn ) Golden Globes The film won three Golden Globes ( Best Picture , Supporting Actor , Original Score ) . AFI American Film Institute recognition 2002 AFI 's 100 Years ... 100 Passions # 13 2005 AFI 's 100 Years of Film Scores # 15 See also ( edit ) Florence Foster Jenkins where Meryl Streep 's character has syphilis References ( edit ) Jump up ^ Harmetz , Aljean ( November 29 , 1985 ) . `` At the Movies '' . The New York Times . Retrieved June 13 , 2011 . Jump up ^ Box Office Mojo ( Out Of Africa ) Jump up ^ Out of Africa , p. 252 Jump up ^ `` Song of Africa '' , Out of Africa DVD Jump up ^ `` The thinking behind Nairobi 's grand schools '' . www.nation.co.ke . Retrieved 2015 - 11 - 05 . Jump up ^ AFI 's 100 Years Of Film Scores Archived 2011 - 07 - 16 at the Wayback Machine . at AFI.com Jump up ^ Out of Africa soundtrack review at Filmtracks.com Jump up ^ The Interpreter , DVD # 25835 , Universal Studios Jump up ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_and_worst_best_pictures/ Jump up ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/broadway_melody/ Jump up ^ `` The 58th Academy Awards ( 1986 ) Nominees and Winners '' . oscars.org . Retrieved 2011 - 10 - 16 . Jump up ^ `` NY Times : Out of Africa '' . NY Times . Retrieved 2009 - 01 - 01 . External links ( edit ) Out of Africa on IMDb Out of Africa at the TCM Movie Database Out of Africa at AllMovie Out of Africa at Box Office Mojo Out of Africa at Rotten Tomatoes <Th_colspan="2"> Films directed by Sydney Pollack <Td_colspan="2"> The Slender Thread ( 1965 ) This Property Is Condemned ( 1966 ) The Scalphunters ( 1968 ) Castle Keep ( 1969 ) They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? ( 1969 ) Jeremiah Johnson ( 1972 ) The Way We Were ( 1973 ) The Yakuza ( 1974 ) Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ) Bobby Deerfield ( 1977 ) The Electric Horseman ( 1979 ) Absence of Malice ( 1981 ) Tootsie ( 1982 ) Out of Africa ( 1985 ) Havana ( 1990 ) The Firm ( 1993 ) Sabrina ( 1995 ) Random Hearts ( 1999 ) The Interpreter ( 2005 ) Sketches of Frank Gehry ( 2006 ) <Th_colspan="2"> Works by Karen Blixen Short story collections Seven Gothic Tales ( 1934 ) Last Tales ( 1957 ) Anecdotes of Destiny ( 1958 ) Other writings Out of Africa ( 1937 ) Film adaptations The Immortal Story ( 1968 ) Ehrengard ( 1982 ) The Dreamers ( 1982 , unfinished ) Out of Africa ( 1985 ) Babette 's Feast ( 1987 ) People Thomas Dinesen ( brother ) Bror von Blixen - Finecke ( husband ) Denys Finch Hatton ( partner ) <Th_colspan="2"> Academy Award for Best Picture 1927 / 28 -- 1950 Wings ( 1927 / 28 ) The Broadway Melody ( 1928 / 29 ) All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1929 / 30 ) Cimarron ( 1930 / 31 ) Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ) Cavalcade ( 1932 / 33 ) It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ) The Life of Emile Zola ( 1937 ) You Ca n't Take It with You ( 1938 ) Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) Rebecca ( 1940 ) How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ) Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ) Casablanca ( 1943 ) Going My Way ( 1944 ) The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ) The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ) Gentleman 's Agreement ( 1947 ) Hamlet ( 1948 ) All the King 's Men ( 1949 ) All About Eve ( 1950 ) 1951 -- 1975 An American in Paris ( 1951 ) The Greatest Show on Earth ( 1952 ) From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) On the Waterfront ( 1954 ) Marty ( 1955 ) Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ) The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) Gigi ( 1958 ) Ben - Hur ( 1959 ) The Apartment ( 1960 ) West Side Story ( 1961 ) Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) Tom Jones ( 1963 ) My Fair Lady ( 1964 ) The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ) In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 ) Oliver ! 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