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Out of Africa

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Oscar-winning biographical drama.

Karen Blixen leaves her native Denmark in 1913 to marry a Swedish baron and run a coffee farm in Kenya. Travelling to Nairobi, she meets adventurer Denys Finch Hatton and a love story begins that is inextricably bound up with the beauty of Africa, its land and its people.
Widescreen.
Review page 61.
(1985, PG) ****
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Sydney Pollack
Karen:
Meryl Streep
Denys Finch Hatton:
Robert Redford
Baron/Hans Klaus:
Maria Brandauer
Berkeley Cole:
Michael Kitchen
Farah:
Malick Bowens
Kamante:
Joseph Thiaka
Kinanjui:
Stephen Kinyanjui
Lord Delamere:
Michael Gough
Felicity:
Suzanna Hamilton
Lady Belfield:
Rachel Kempson
Source: Radio Times

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