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In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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  • Won 7 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 31 nominations.
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Karen
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Denys
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Bror
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Berkeley
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Farah
Joseph Thiaka ...
Kamante
Stephen Kinyanjui ...
Kinanjui
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Delamere
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Felicity
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Lady Belfield
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Lord Belfield
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Sir Joseph
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Belknap
Mike Bugara ...
Juma
Job Seda ...
Kanuthia
Mohammed Umar ...
Ismail
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Doctor
Kenneth Mason ...
Banker
Tristram Jellinek ...
First Commissioner
Stephen B. Grimes ...
Second Commissioner (as Stephen Grimes)
Annabel Maule ...
Lady Byrne
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Minister
Sbish Trzebinski ...
Beefy Drunk
Allaudin Qureshi ...
Rajiv
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Young Officer
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Mariammo
Peter Strong ...
Huge Man
Abdulla Sunado ...
Esa (as Abdullah Sunado)
Amanda Parkin ...
Victoria
Muriel Gross ...
Lady Delamere
Ann Palmer ...
Dowager
Keith Pearson ...
Missionary Teacher
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Lady pouring champagne at hunting party (uncredited)
Sarah Shelton ...
Missionary Nun (uncredited)
Sudan ...
Lion (uncredited)

Directed by

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Sydney Pollack

Written by

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Karen Blixen ... (based upon the following: "Out of Africa" and other writings by)
 
Judith Thurman ... (based upon the following: "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Story Teller" by)
 
Errol Trzebinski ... (based upon the following: "Silence Will Speak" by)
 
Kurt Luedtke ... (screenplay by)

Produced by

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Anna Cataldi ... associate producer
Terence A. Clegg ... co-producer (as Terence Clegg)
Kim Jorgensen ... executive producer
Sydney Pollack ... producer
Sid Sheinberg ... executive producer (uncredited)
Judith Thurman ... associate producer

Music by

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John Barry ... (original music composed and conducted by)

Cinematography by

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David Watkin ... director of photography

Editing by

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Pembroke J. Herring ... (as Pembroke Herring)
Sheldon Kahn
Fredric Steinkamp
William Steinkamp

Editorial Department

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Donah Bassett ... negative cutter
Jeffrey James Bell ... assistant editor (as Jeffrey Bell)
Don Brochu ... assistant editor
Claudio M. Cutry ... associate editor (as Claudio Cutry)
Craig Herring ... assistant editor
Rick Meyer ... assistant editor
Joe Mosca ... assistant editor (as Joseph Mosca)
Saul Saladow ... assistant editor
Karl F. Steinkamp ... assistant editor (as Karl Steinkamp)

Casting By

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Mary Selway

Production Design by

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Stephen B. Grimes ... (as Stephen Grimes)

Art Direction by

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Colin Grimes
Cliff Robinson
Herbert Westbrook

Set Decoration by

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Josie MacAvin

Costume Design by

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Milena Canonero

Makeup Department

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J. Roy Helland ... hair: Miss Streep / makeup artist: Miss Streep
Norma Hill ... makeup artist
Mary Hillman ... chief makeup artist
Joyce James ... hairdresser
Gary Liddiard ... makeup artist: Mr. Redford
Vera Mitchell ... chief hairdresser
Suzanne Belcher ... assistant makeup artist (uncredited)
Julia Wilson ... makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Robin Forman Howard ... post-production supervisor (as Robin Forman)
Gerry Levy ... production manager
Frank Price ... executive in charge of production (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Roy Button ... second assistant director
Jack Couffer ... second unit director
Patrick Kinney ... assistant director
George Menoe ... assistant director
Meja Mwangi ... assistant director
Tom Mwangi ... assistant director
David Tomblin ... first assistant director
Simon Trevor ... second unit director
Lee Cleary ... key second assistant director: UK (uncredited)
Michael Zimbrich ... first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)

Art Department

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Bert Hearn ... prop master
Ron Higgins ... stores/dressing
Martin Hubbard ... carpenter
Geoff Langley ... construction manager
Frank Billington-Marks ... assistant property master (uncredited)
Jimmy Kavanagh ... drapes (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Gary Alexander ... re-recording mixer
Nicholas Eliopoulos ... sound editor
Peter Handford ... sound mixer
Chris Jenkins ... re-recording mixer
William L. Manger ... adr editor (as William Manger)
Tom McCarthy Jr. ... supervising sound editor
Larry Stensvold ... re-recording mixer
John Stevenson ... boom operator
Jeffrey Wilhoit ... foley artist
Brian Blamey ... dubbing editor (uncredited)
Blake R. Cornett ... first assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Malcolm Davies ... sound recordist (uncredited)
Paul Pavelka ... sound re-recording engineer (uncredited)
Michael P. Redbourn ... sound editor (uncredited)
Idin Roshan ... sound transfer engineer (uncredited)
Lionel Strutt ... adr mixer (uncredited)
John Sutton ... sound mixer (uncredited)

Special Effects by

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David Harris ... special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by

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Syd Dutton ... special visual effects: matte paintings (uncredited)
Mark Freund ... optical cameraman: Illusion Arts (uncredited)
Steve Gawley ... model maker (uncredited)
Michael Gleason ... visual effects editor (uncredited)
Ira Keeler ... model maker (uncredited)
Jay Riddle ... animation camera: ILM (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Peter Allwork ... aerial photography
Alan Barry ... best boy
Frank Connor ... still photographer
Freddie Cooper ... camera operator
Maurice Gillett ... gaffer
Rodrigo Gutierrez ... camera operator: second unit
Ray Hall ... grip
Ricky Hall ... grip
Ibrahim Jibril ... grip
Ali Matata ... grip
Mohamed Ngela ... grip
Mahmud Sheikh Omar ... grip
Stephen St. John ... steadicam operator (as Steve St. John)
Mohamed Wafula ... grip
Douglas Kirkland ... still photographer (uncredited)

Casting Department

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Barbara Harris ... voice casting
Sarah Withey ... local casting: Kenya

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Stephen Cornish ... wardrobe
Ken Crouch ... wardrobe (as Kenny Crouch)
Andres Fernandez-Sotillos ... wardrobe (as Andres Fernandez Sotillos)
David Garrett ... costume maker
Jenny Hawkins ... wardrobe (as Jennie Hawkins)
Joanna Johnston ... assistant costume designer
Pat McEwan ... wardrobe
Elizabeth Ryrie ... wardrobe
Graham Churchyard ... assistant costume designer (uncredited)
Dougie Hawkes ... costumer (uncredited)

Location Management

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Allan James ... location manager
Grania O'Shannon ... location manager
John Sutton ... location consultant

Music Department

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Chris Dean ... musician: trombone
Linda Harmon ... vocalist
Cliff Kohlweck ... music editor (as Clif Kohlweck)
Bobbi Page ... score vocalist
George W. Senoga-Zake ... music advisor: African music
Alan Smyth ... music research
Dan Wallin ... music scoring mixer
Robert Adcock ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Israel Baker ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Marilyn Baker ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Dennis Belfield ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Arnold Belnick ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Charles Boito ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Tom Boyd ... musician: oboe soloist (uncredited)
Julian Bratolyubov ... copyist (uncredited)
Denyse Buffum ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Thomas R. Buffum ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Larry Bunker ... musician: percussion (uncredited)
Norman Carr ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Ron Clark ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Herman Clebanoff ... musician: violin (uncredited)
David L. Cook ... additional music (uncredited) / music score (uncredited)
Ronald Cooper ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Larry Corbett ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Sandy De Crescent ... contractor (uncredited)
Vince De Rosa ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Drew Dembowski ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Alan DeVeritch ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Kevin Dorsey ... vocalist (uncredited)
Bonnie Jean Douglas ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Bruce Dukov ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Dominick Fera ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Dominic Fidelibus ... copyist (uncredited)
Ron Folsom ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Kirby Furlong ... copyist (uncredited)
James Getzoff ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Pamela Goldsmith ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Steven Gordon ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Mario Guarneri ... musician: trumpet (uncredited)
Alan Harshman ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Clayton Haslop ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Peter Hatch ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Norman Herzburg ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Paula Hochhalter ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Tommy Johnson ... musician: tuba (uncredited)
Jim Kanter ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Alan Kaplan ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Armand Kaproff ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Nathan Kaproff ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Dennis Karmazyn ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Roland Kato ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Randy Kerber ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Milton Kestenbaum ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Myra Kestenbaum ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Janet Ketchum ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Christian Kollgaard ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Connie Kupka ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Janet Lakatos ... musician: viola (uncredited)
William Lane ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Dane Little ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Warren Luening ... musician: trumpet (uncredited)
Arthur Maebe ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Virginia Majewski ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Donald McInnes ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Malcolm McNab ... musician: trumpet soloist (uncredited)
Ed Meares ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Joe Meyer ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Todd Miller ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Bruce Morgenthaler ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Carole Mukagawa ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Buell Neidlinger ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Dan Neufeld ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Dick Noel ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Mike Nowak ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Brian O'Connor ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Michael O'Donovan ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Richard Perissi ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Sue Ranney ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Bill Reichenbach ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Dorothy Remsen ... musician: harp (uncredited)
Emil Richards ... musician: percussion (uncredited)
Meyer Rubin ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Sheldon Sanov ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Leonard Selic ... musician: viola (uncredited)
David Shostac ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Paul Shure ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Henry Sigismonti ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
David Speltz ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Sally Stevens ... singer (uncredited)
Sheridon Stokes ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Margaret Storer ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Linn Subotnick ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Robert Sushel ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Poly H. Sweeney ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Chet Swiatkowsky ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Vicki Sylvester ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Phillip A. Teele ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
James Thatcher ... musician: French horn (uncredited)
Michael Thompson ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Ray Tischer ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Richard Todd ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Alexander Treger ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Louise Di Tullio ... musician: flute (uncredited)
Lloyd Ulyate ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Dorothy Wade ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Don Waldrop ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Jim Walker ... musician: woodwind (uncredited)
Ken Watson ... musician: percussion (uncredited)
Harold Wolf ... musician: violin (uncredited)
Albert Woodbury ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Kenneth Yerke ... musician: violin (uncredited)
David Young ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Mihail Zinovyev ... musician: viola (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Nikki Clapp ... script supervisor
Lissa Ruben ... script supervisor
David Rayfiel ... script revisions (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Margaret Adams ... production coordinator
Christine Buuri ... production secretary
Nelson Chege ... advisor: Kikuyu
Brian Gibbs ... production accountant
David Hilton ... production assistant
Patricia Johnson ... publicist
Phill Norman ... title designer
Michael Pollack ... production assistant
Monty Ruben ... production consultant
John Sutton ... field consultant
Thomas Thanangadan ... production assistant
Hubert Wells ... chief animal trainer
Michael Culling ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Jed Edge ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Steve Edge ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Bill Gage ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Joy Green ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Alex Matcham ... assistant accountant (uncredited)
Karin McElhatton ... animal trainer (uncredited)
David J. McMillan ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Carrie Park ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Roland Raffler ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Fess 'Reg' Reynolds ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Paul 'Sled' Reynolds ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Wally Ross ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Matthew Scudamore ... production runner (uncredited)
Cheryl Shawver ... animal trainer (uncredited)
Doree Sitterly ... animal trainer (uncredited) / stand-in: Meryl Streep (uncredited)
Jules Sylvester ... animal trainer (uncredited)
DeAnne Zarkowski ... animal trainer (uncredited)

Thanks

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Syd Dutton ... special thanks: Illusion Arts, Inc.
Bill Taylor ... special thanks: Illusion Arts, Inc.
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Plot Summary

Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys Finch-Hatton), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband. Written by Tony Bridges

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Taglines Based on a true story. See more »
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Also Known As
  • África mía (United States, Spanish title)
  • Out of Africa - Souvenirs d'Afrique (France)
  • Jenseits von Afrika (Germany)
  • Memorias de África (Spain)
  • Memòries d'Àfrica (Spain, Catalan title)
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Runtime
  • 161 min
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Box Office

Budget $31,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend United States $3,637,290, 22 Dec 1985
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $266,185,197

Did You Know?

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Trivia Early in the film, Baroness Karen Blixen is introduced to her servants. Although the scene is inter-cut with close-ups and other inserts in the film, the first take was filmed as one long shot that required Meryl Streep to meet and exchange dialogue with several other characters. As soon as director Sydney Pollack yelled "Cut", Streep, wearing a high-collared shirt and snug jacket, yelled "get this thing off of me!" and ripped open her jacket. A large beetle had crawled down the front of the jacket moments after the camera rolled, yet she continued filming the scene. Much of it remains in the final film. See more »
Goofs During the lion attack, Denys pulls an additional two spare cartridges from his belt as a ready reload. However, he carries them with his right hand, his trigger hand, which also is the hand needed to break the action to reload. No experienced double-gun hunter would do this. The two reload cartridges must be carried in the left hand, leaving the right hand free to manipulate the rifle. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into A Song of Africa (2000). See more »
Soundtracks Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A (K.622) See more »
Crazy Credits Epilogue:  "Karen Blixen published her first stories in 1934 under the name Isak Dinesen.   She never returned to Africa." See more »
Quotes Karen Blixen: It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
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