She quickly learns that the farm is at too high an elevation to offer much of a chance of success. She then learns that Bror has changed their agreed-upon plan, and has spent her money establishing a coffee farm. Karen and Bror marry before the day is out, with her becoming Baroness Blixen. She enters the men-only bar to ask for her husband and, because of her gender, is asked to leave. She is taken to the recently founded Muthaiga Club. She is greeted at the railway station by Farah, the Somali headman hired by Bror, who is nowhere to be found. En route to Nairobi, her train is hailed by a big-game hunter named Denys Finch Hatton, who knows her fiancé and entrusts his haul of ivory to her. Using her funds, he is to set up a cattle ranch, with her joining him a few months later, at which time they will marry. After having been spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, she asks his brother, Baron Bror Blixen, to get married out of mutual convenience, and they move to the vicinity of Nairobi, British East Africa.
Karen Blixen recalls her past life in Africa where she moved in 1913 as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman. Despite mixed reviews from critics, Out of Africa was a commercial success and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Pollack.
Others in the film include Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole, Malick Bowens as Farah, Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief, Michael Gough as Lord Delamere, Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model and actress Iman as Mariammo. Streep played Karen Blixen, Redford played Denys Finch Hatton, and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and filmed in 1984. 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. Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
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