Out of Africa (1985)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Escritores:

Karen Blixen (books)
Judith Thurman (book)
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 diciembre 1985 (USA)

Género:

Biografía | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Based on a true story.

Plot:

In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.

Plot Keywords:

Love | Marriage | Plantation | Africa | Farm

Premios:

Won 7 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 17 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

One of the Best Movies I have ever seen

Reparto

Meryl Streep	...	Karen Blixen
Robert Redford	...	Denys Finch Hatton
Klaus Maria Brandauer	...	Bror Blixen / Hans Blixen
Michael Kitchen	...	Berkeley Cole
Malick Bowens	...	Farah
Joseph Thiaka	...	Kamante
Stephen Kinyanjui	...	Kinanjui
Michael Gough	...	Lord Delamere
Suzanna Hamilton	...	Felicity
Rachel Kempson	...	Lady Belfield
Graham Crowden	...	Lord Belfield
Leslie Phillips	...	Sir Joseph
Shane Rimmer	...	Belknap
Mike Bugara	...	Juma
Job Seda	...	Kanuthia
Mohammed Umar	...	Ismail
Donal McCann	...	Doctor
Kenneth Mason	...	Banker
Tristram Jellinek	...	First Commissioner
Stephen B. Grimes	...	Second Commissioner (as Stephen Grimes)
Annabel Maule	...	Lady Byrne
Benny Young	...	Minister
Sbish Trzebinski	...	Beefy Drunk
Allaudin Qureshi	...	Rajiv
Niven Boyd	...	Young Officer
Iman	...	Mariammo
Peter Strong	...	Huge Man
Abdulla Sunado	...	Esa
Amanda Parkin	...	Victoria
Muriel Gross	...	Lady Delamere
Ann Palmer	...	Dowager
Keith Pearson	...	Missionary Teacher

Dirigida por
Sydney Pollack

Créditos del guión
Karen Blixen		(books "Out of Africa", "Shadows on the Grass" and "Letters from Africa") (as Isak Dinesen)
Judith Thurman		(book "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller")
Errol Trzebinski		(book "Silence Will Speak")
Kurt Luedtke		(screenplay)

Producida por
Anna Cataldi	....	associate producer
Terence A. Clegg	....	co-producer (as Terence Clegg)
Kim Jorgensen	....	executive producer
Sydney Pollack	....	producer
Judith Thurman	....	associate producer

Música original por
John Barry

Fotografía por
David Watkin		(director of photography)

Montaje por
Pembroke J. Herring		(as Pembroke Herring)
Sheldon Kahn
Fredric Steinkamp
William Steinkamp

Diseño de producción por
Stephen B. Grimes		(as Stephen Grimes)

Dirección artística
Colin Grimes
Cliff Robinson
Herbert Westbrook

Decorados
Josie MacAvin

Diseño de vestuario por
Milena Canonero

Departamento de maquillaje
J. Roy Helland	....	hair stylist: Miss Streep
J. Roy Helland	....	makeup artist: Miss Streep
Mary Hillman	....	chief makeup artist
Norma Hill	....	makeup artist
Joyce James	....	hairdresser
Gary Liddiard	....	makeup artist: Mr. Redford
Vera Mitchell	....	chief hairdresser
Suzanne Belcher	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Dirección de producción
Robin Forman	....	post-production supervisor
Gerry Levy	....	production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Roy Button	....	second assistant director
Jack Couffer	....	second unit director
Patrick Kinney	....	assistant director
George Menoe	....	assistant director
Meja Mwangi	....	assistant director
Tom Mwangi	....	assistant director
David Tomblin	....	first assistant director
Simon Trevor	....	second unit director
Lee Cleary	....	key second assistant director: UK (uncredited)
Michael Zimbrich	....	first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)

Departamento de Arte
Bert Hearn	....	prop master
Geoff Langley	....	construction manager
Frank Billington-Marks	....	assistant property master (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Gary Alexander	....	sound re-recording mixer
Peter Handford	....	sound mixer
Chris Jenkins	....	sound re-recording mixer
William L. Manger	....	adr editor (as William Manger)
Tom McCarthy Jr.	....	supervising sound editor
Larry Stensvold	....	sound re-recording mixer
John Stevenson	....	boom operator
Blake R. Cornett	....	first assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Malcolm Davies	....	sound recordist (uncredited)
Lionel Strutt	....	adr mixer (uncredited)
John Sutton	....	sound mixer (uncredited)

Efectos especiales
David Harris	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects
Syd Dutton	....	special visual effects: matte paintings (uncredited)
Mark Freund	....	optical cameraman: Illusion Arts (uncredited)
Steve Gawley	....	model maker (uncredited)
Michael Gleason	....	visual effects editor (uncredited)
Jay Riddle	....	animation camera: ILM (uncredited)

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Peter Allwork	....	aerial photographer
Alan Barry	....	best boy
Frank Connor	....	still photographer
Freddie Cooper	....	camera operator
Maurice Gillett	....	gaffer
Rodrigo Gutierrez	....	camera operator: second unit
Ray Hall	....	grip
Ricky Hall	....	grip
Ibrahim Jibril	....	grip
Ali Matata	....	grip
Mohamed Ngela	....	grip
Mahmud Sheikh Omar	....	grip
Stephen St. John	....	Steadicam operator (as Steve St. John)
Mohamed Wafula	....	grip
Douglas Kirkland	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Departamento de reparto
Barbara Harris	....	voice casting
Mary Selway	....	casting
Sarah Withey	....	local casting: Kenya

Departamento de vestuario
Stephen Cornish	....	wardrobe
Ken Crouch	....	wardrobe (as Kenny Crouch)
David Garrett	....	costume maker
Jenny Hawkins	....	wardrobe (as Jennie Hawkins)
Joanna Johnston	....	assistant costume designer
Pat McEwan	....	wardrobe
Elizabeth Ryrie	....	wardrobe
Andres Fernandez Sotillos	....	wardrobe

Departamento de Edición
Donah Bassett	....	negative cutter
Jeffrey James Bell	....	assistant editor (as Jeffrey Bell)
Don Brochu	....	assistant editor
Claudio M. Cutry	....	associate editor (as Claudio Cutry)
Craig Herring	....	assistant editor
Rick Meyer	....	assistant editor
Joe Mosca	....	assistant editor (as Joseph Mosca)
Saul Saladow	....	assistant editor
Karl F. Steinkamp	....	assistant editor (as Karl Steinkamp)

Departamento de Música
John Barry	....	conductor
Jack Brymer	....	musician: clarinet, "Concerto for Clarinet amd Orchestra in A" (K.622 )
Cliff Kohlweck	....	music editor (as Clif Kohlweck)
Alan Loveday	....	musician: violin, "Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major for Violin & Viola" (K.364 )
András Schiff	....	musician: piano "Sonata in A Major" (K.331 "Rondo Alla Turca") (as Andras Schiff)
George W. Senoga-Zake	....	advisor: African music
Stephen Shingles	....	musician: viola, "Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major for Violin & Viola" (K.364 )
Alan Smyth	....	music researcher
Dan Wallin	....	music scoring mixer
Neville Marriner	....	conductor: "Concerto for Clarinet amd Orchestra in A", "Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Violin & Viola" and "Three Divertimenti" (uncredited)
Albert Woodbury	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
Margaret Adams	....	production coordinator
Christine Buuri	....	production secretary
Nelson Chege	....	Kikuyu advisor
Nikki Clapp	....	script supervisor
Brian Gibbs	....	production accountant
David Hilton	....	production assistant
Allan James	....	location manager
Patricia Johnson	....	publicist
Phill Norman	....	title designer: main title
Grania O'Shannon	....	location manager
Lissa Ruben	....	script supervisor
Monty Ruben	....	production consultant
John Sutton	....	field consultant
John Sutton	....	location consultant
Thomas Thanangadan	....	production assistant
Hubert Wells	....	chief animal trainer
Alex Matcham	....	assistant accountant (uncredited)

Gracias
Syd Dutton	....	special thanks (as Syd Dutton of Illusion Arts, Inc.)
Bill Taylor	....	special thanks (as Bill Taylor of Illusion Arts, Inc.)

Compañías Productores

• Mirage Enterprises
• Universal Pictures

Distribuidores

• Universal Pictures (1985) (USA) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (1986) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• CIC Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1988) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Columbia TriStar (Brazil) (DVD)
• Universal Pictures (video)

Efectos especiales

• Effects Associates (uncredited)
• Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) (uncredited)
• Makeup Effects Laboratories (uncredited)

Otras Compañías

• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies
• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production (uncredited)
• Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing  special thanks: vintage clothing rentals (uncredited)
• Ker & Downey Safaris  location camps and safari transport services provided by (as Ker & Downey Safaris, Kenya)
• Lee Lighting  grip and lighting equipment (uncredited)
• MCA Records  original soundtrack album available on (as MCA Records and Cassettes)
• Mayflower Recording  adr recording (uncredited)
• Pacific Title  titles
• Rank Film Industries  color by
• Rungstedlund Foundation, The  special thanks
• Universal Title  opticals by

También conocida como:

África mía (Argentina) [es]
Africa mía (Venezuela) [es]
Memorias de África (Spain) [es]

Duración:

150 min | USA:160 min (TCM print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Swahili

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:12 | Brazil:16 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Norway:11 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

England, UK

Compañía:

Mirage Enterprises

Trivialidades:

Audrey Hepburn was originally offered the role of Karen.

Errores:

Continuidad: Denys is shown peeling nearly half a dozen oranges when talking to Karen outside.

Citas:

Karen Blixen: [Voiceover] I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Saturday Night Live: The Best of David Spade (2005) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Three Divertimenti (K.136,137,138)

One of the Best Movies I have ever seen

OUT OF AFRICA is based on the memoirs of Danish writer Karen Blixen (pen name, Isak Dinesen) in a coffee plantation in present day Kenya. It explains how this brave woman overcomes the stereotype of a dainty, colonial British lady by running the coffee farm while her husband Bror Blixen (Brandauer) led a life of hunting and infidelities. Meryl Streep is great as Karen Blixen. She manages to maintain the realistic Danish accent through the whole film. Redford is great as Denys Finch-Hatton, the Etonian hunter who keeps companion in her loneliest and hardest. But the real attraction of the film is he outstanding photography of the African landscape together with the sweeping John Barry soundtrack that is probably the most beautiful movie soundtrack of the 1980s. OUT OF AFRICA will be regarded as Sydney Pollack's asterpiece and a Classic of our times.