MOVIE ; Out Of Africa
CAST ; Meryl Streep as Karen Bixen
Robert Redford as Denys Finch Halton
Klaus Maria as Baron Bror Bixen
ACHIEVEMENT : Seven Academy Awards
CURTAIN RAISER
The Scene starts like this - Karen Bixen recalls her past life .
In 1913 she had come as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman ,They move to Nairobi which is east of Africa to get herself married out of mutual convenience .Her train hailed by a big hunter by the name Denys Finch Hatton who knows her fiance. she realizes that her money is spent by her brother in a coffee farm .He is more interested in hunting safaris than in farming.
Gradually .Karen begins to love Africa & African people .She is taken by the breathtaking view of Ngong hills and great rift valley beyond .She looks after the people on her land and opens school for them .She also look after their medical needs &arbitrates their disputes. She easily mingles with all the young women in that place. She lived in the upper class colony in that area.
In the meantime ,during the first world war , Karen leads a difficult expedition to find them and return safely .Later on ,Karen discovers that Bror has given her a disease called Syphilize .
Syphilize is a bacterial infection which starts as a sore and caused by the sexual contact.
She is not able to get a proper treatment so she returns to Denmark and Bror agrees to manage the farm while she is away. Irony was that ,she was unable to have any children ,so she finally decides to resume safari work and they begin to live separately.
The relationship between Karen & Bror develops .He comes to live with her .But, Later on they (Karen & Bror) got divorced on the ground of Karen Infidelity .But Karen finds that Denys has taken one of her female friend to a private safari . she realizes Denys for monogamous relationship .So she finds the relationship immaterial.so this made them apart and so she moves out.
A tragic happens like When Denys accompanies Karen to depart for a safari in airplane it was decided that the next day he will fly her back to Mombasa .But the tragedy was Bror gave the news that Denys biplane was crashed & burnt in Tsavo.
During Denys Funeral Karen recites an excerpt of a poem about a lauded athlete dying young .At train station ,she says good bye to Farah and then turns back to ask him to say her name for the last time
As per the first line of the movie ,"OUT OF AFRICA" she was never to return to Africa.
Awards ; Best Picture
Best direction
c Best actress
Best Supporting actor
Best screenplay
Best cinematography
Best original score
Best sound
FACTS &MYTHS
It is based on 1937 autobiographical book -Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen .When an additional material from 1960 book shadows on the grass.
LOCATION
Mostly the film was shot in Kenya ,near Ngong hills .
