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Christian Braad Thomsen

Karen Blixen - storyteller

Director Christian Braad Thomsen Cast Thorkild Bjørnvig, Karen Blixen, Nils Carlsen
Edition 1996
90' - 1995 - Documentary - 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

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Dialogue

Danish, French, English

Countries of production

Denmark

Year

1995