Out of Africa (film)

Out of Africa
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.

The story begins in 1913 in Denmark, when Karen Dinesen (a wealthy but unmarried woman) asks her friend Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) to enter into a marriage of convenience with her. Although Bror is a member of the , he is no longer financially secure; therefore, he agrees to the marriage, and the two of them plan to move to Africa to begin a dairy farm.