Starring French actress Stéphane Audran as a former pétroleuse now working as a cook for two elderly sisters in a remote Jutland village, Danish director Gabriel Axel’s Babette’s Feast, the first film to be made from a Blixen story, won Denmark an Oscar in 1988. In addition, Denmark’s Nimbus Film has acquired the rights for Danish author-poet Thorkild Bjørnvig’s book The Pact, published in 1974, about his stormy friendship-relationship with Blixen between 1950-1954, when he was 32 and she 64.Īccording to producer Lars Bredo Rahbek ( Flame & Citron (2008)), Nimbus is discussing with UK and US companies setting up the production for a 2013 start, with Nimbus as delegate producer, financing and an international top-level cast. She also acts as doctor, teacher, judge, and. Danish Oscar-winning director Bille August will film the biopic from Peter Asmussen’s script, beginning next year. Out of Africa is Dinesens autobiography of her life in Kenya, where she owns and operates a coffee plantation. ”We want to make a film classic in Danish, about a great artist during a period in Denmark which should be immortalised,” explained Roger Grasten. Originally Regner Grasten Filmproduktion tried to acquire the righs 20 years ago, but at that time the Rungstedlund Foundation, managing the Blixen heritage, thought it had already licensed them to Universal Pictures as part of the Out of Africa property, which eventually turned out not to be the case.
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