Out of Africa: Robert Redford retrospective at the REX cinema

In English with German subtitles.

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to find each other - please be on time so we can get seats together.

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From Wikipedia: Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer. The film is loosely based 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 film tells the story as a series of six loosely coupled episodes from Karen's life, intercut with her narration.

Out of Africa was filmed using descendants of several people of the Kikuyu tribe who are named in the book, including the grandson of chief Kinyanjui who played his grandfather. Much of it was filmed in the Karen / Lang'ata area near the actual Ngong Hills outside Nairobi. The Chyulu Hills stood in for the less picturesque Ngong Hills. As Karen's farmhouse was at the time of filming a part of a local nursing school, the filming took place in her nearby first house "Mbogani", which is a dairy today. Her actual house, known as "Mbagathi" is now the Karen Blixen Museum. A substantial part of the filming took place in the Scott house and in a recreation of 1910s Nairobi built in an area of unoccupied land in Langata.

Awards: The film was nominated for many, many awards. The Oscars that it won are Best Picture and Best Director (to Sydney Pollack), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Sound.

About the actor and director: Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 1936 – September 2025) was an American actor, director and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, (including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994). He has also received various honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the Honorary César in 2019.