![]() With its deep-focus cinematography and striking play between foreground and background, (1987) the latter is based on another story from the collection AnecdotesĪlthough filmed in color, the visual style of The Immortal Story, (1985), and the well-regarded Danish/French co-production Babette's Feast The phenomenally popular, Academy Award winning Out of Africa Welles' film was the first feature-length adaptation of Dinesen's work subsequentĪdaptations include the little-known 1982 Italian adaptation of Ehrengard, Dinesen typically wrote parallel English and Danish versions of her work,Īnd thus should be considered as belonging to both English-language and Danish literatures. The 1937 book Out of Africa, an enduring classic in the memoir Her cousin, Baron Bror Frederik von Blixen-Finecke the two moved to Kenya and ran a coffee plantation.Īlthough the couple divorced in 1921, Dinesen stayed on at the plantation for another Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen (1885-1962). Theatrically in other countries after its initial French broadcast. In what is easily the standout performance in the film. The hour-long film for French TV since Jeanne Moreau played the role of Virginie, The French television company ORTF later agreed to produce Kane (1941) career-and Welles was forced to flee Budapest without even money Of Dinesen stories filmed on location in Budapest however, the initial financialīacking fell through-the sort of thing that plagued Welles throughout his post- Citizen ![]() Originally, the film was to have been just one episode in an anthology Is largely faithful to Dinesen's story, though the location has been changed fromĬanton to Macao. Is an adaptation of the story of the same name from the revered Danish author Isakĭinesen's 1958 collection Anecdotes of Destiny. The Immortal Story, Orson Welles' second-to-last completed feature, To make the story come true whatever the cost and asks Elishama to hire a sailor Says that the story is in fact a commonplace legend, Mr. ![]() Who was paid five guineas by a wealthy man to sleep with his wife. Clay himself relates the story of a sailor Clay objects, saying that he wants to hear stories Jew who fled the pogroms as a child, to read to him at night. Unable to sleep, he asks his clerk Elishama Levinsky, a Polish Inhabits a villa previously owned by a business partner and rival whom he bankruptedĪnd drove to suicide. As Virginie watches the sailor depart, Mr. The sailor states that he has no intention of telling the story and that no one would believe him anyway. ![]() In the morning when the sailor leaves, he is told that he can now tell his story around the world, and the legend will become truth. All through the night Clay keeps a vigil outside the door of the bedroom where the couple are making love. After the sailor has dined sumptuously, he is shown to a bedroom where Virginie is waiting. Clay then finds Paul, a young Danish sailor who has been shipwrecked on an island for a year, and brings him home to play the other role. Levinsky approaches Virginie Ducrot, the daughter of Clay's former partner, who eventually agrees to take part in the charade for a sum of money. Irritated, Clay resolves to turn the fiction into truth, and he orders Levinsky to find a beautiful young woman to portray his wife. The clerk tells the old man that the tale is merely a legend that is familiar to sailors in every port. Clay, however, is bored by anything that is not fact, and he interrupts his clerk to relate the "true" story of a young sailor who was paid by an aging and wealthy merchant to sleep with his beautiful wife in order to provide him with an heir. One night, Levinsky tries to break the routine by reading from the text of Isaiah. His only companion is his bookkeeper, Levinsky, a Polish emigrant whose chores include reading the account books to Mr. Some time ago, Clay had driven his partner Ducrot into bankruptcy and finally suicide he now resides alone in Ducrot's mansion. Clay is an aging, wealthy merchant living on the island of Macao during the 19th century. ![]()
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