Director
Christian Braad Thomsen
Cast
Thorkild Bjørnvig, Karen Blixen, Nils Carlsen
Edition 1996
90'
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1995
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Documentary
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Dialogue:
Danish, French, English
Karen Blixen lived for many years as a coffee farmer in Kenya; she contracted syphilis from her husband, Bror Blixen; she returned to Denmark for treatment and became a prolific writer.
This film includes interviews with people who knew Blixen, but the most interesting scenes are
those in which the gaunt, handsome woman is on camera talking. She's a born storyteller, able
te embellish simple anecdotes to epic status, and is never at a loss for words in Danish, English
or French (her last interview, recorded just prior to her death in 1962, was for Belgian
television). Her tour of America in 1959 yielded some particularly interesting filmed footage,
and is a startling reminder of what TV talkshows were like back then.
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Credits
Directors
Christian Braad Thomsen
Cast
Thorkild Bjørnvig, Karen Blixen, Nils Carlsen
Scenario
Christian Braad Thomsen
Director of Photography
Henning Kristiansen
Editors
Agi Dudas, Vinca Wiedemann
Producers
Christian Braad Thomsen
More info
Dialogue
Danish, French, English
Countries of production
Denmark
Year
1995