Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 161 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
- farm
- infidelity
- africa
- plantation
- safari
- melancholy
- nairobi
- coffee grower
- romance
- kenya
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert Redford
Denys George Finch Hatton
Meryl Streep
Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Baron Bror Blixen/Baron Hans Blixen
Michael Kitchen
Berkeley Cole
- Malick Bowens — Farah
- Michael Gough — Lord Delamere
- Suzanna Hamilton — Felicity
- Rachel Kempson — Lady Belfield
- Graham Crowden — Lord Belfield
- Leslie Phillips — Sir Joseph
- Shane Rimmer — Belknap, farm manager
- Joseph Thiaka — Kamante
- Stephen Kinyanjui — Kinanjui
- Mike Bugara — Juma
- Job Seda — Kanuthia
- Directed
- Sydney Pollack
- Written
- Kurt Luedtke
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,577 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Mirage Entertainment, Mirage Enterprises
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
