Out of Africa
1985 film by Sydney Pollack · Released December 20, 1985
Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by Kurt Luedtke, and this screenplay was filmed in 1984. Streep played Karen Blixen, Redford played Denys Finch Hatton, and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen.
Cast ages at release (December 20, 1985)
- Robert Redford, as Denys Finch Hatton: 49
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Bror and Hans von Blixen-Finecke: 42
- Michael Gough, as Hugh Cholmondeley: 69
- Suzanna Hamilton, as Felicity Spurway: 25
- Michael Kitchen, as Berkeley Cole: 37
- Rachel Kempson, as Sarah: 75
- Leslie Phillips, as Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne: 61
- Shane Rimmer, as Belknap: 56
- Annabel Maule, as Lady Byrne: 63
- Iman, as Mariammo: 30
- Graham Crowden, as Henry: 63
- Malick Bowens, as Farah Aden: 44
- Donal McCann, as Doctor in Nairobi: 42