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Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. One day, she meets a talented 30-year-old poet whom she promises literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally, even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life.Read moreLess
Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. One day, she meets a talented 30-year-old poet whom she promises literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally, even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life.
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Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. One day, she meets a talented 30-year-old poet whom she promises literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally, even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Birthe NeumannKaren Blixen
Simon BennebjergThorkild Bjørnvig
Nanna Skaarup VossGrete
Asta Kamma AugustBenedicte
Anders HeinrichsenKnud W. Jensen
Marie MondrupFru Carlsen
Kurt DreyerHeinrich
Jytte KvinesdalSygeplejerske
Téo LepetitFransk kultureliteExplore the crew
- Director
- Bille August
- Producer
- Jesper Morthorst
- Screenplay
- Christian Torpe
- Producer
- Karin Trolle
- Director of Photography
- Manuel Alberto Claro
- Editor
- Anne Østerud
- Editor
- Janus Billeskov Jansen
- Original Music Composer
- Frédéric Vercheval
- Editor
- Carla Luffe Heintzelmann