"You do like to change things," Denys says, as a smile stretches across his face. He's not kidding. Karen Blixen wasn't a woman who colored inside the lines. She fled the confines of European socie...

The real life Denys George Finch Hatton was British, but when you have an actor like Robert Redford on hand, historical fact needs to give way to sheer movie star power. Hence: no British accent. D...

Cheating creep. Womanizing cad. Unbelievably fiscally irresponsible jerk. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Karen's future ex: Bror von Blixen-Finecke.Just as it's hard to see what you can dislike about D...

Karen's Major Domo and closest confidant in Africa was Farah, the kind of devoted servant that makes you wonder if she should have just married him and been done with it. In the real world, this gu...

"Hello, the house!" Felicity shouts to Karen as she leaps off her horse, triumphantly announcing that she'd brought dinner. She's just killed a gazelle and it's strapped to the back of her horse. T...

Berkeley's a charming, gallant Englishman who's a buddy of Denys and becomes a friend to Karen when her husband's off gallivanting around. He's a minor character in the film, whose most interesting...