Vzpomínky na Afriku - 2 CDmp3

"You woke up with the thought that you belong right here and nowhere else..." In the heart of Africa, from where coffee and humanity itself once spread to the world, a barely thirty-year-old Danish intellectual finds a new home and soon a lion's den, especially when she begins to be on her own for everything. She does not complain. On six hundred acres of land at an altitude of two thousand meters, Baroness Blixen has been cultivating the demanding coffee plant from the spring of 1914 until the crisis in 1931, perceiving the events around her with the shrewdness of Scandinavians, who love to seek a better self in a warm climate. The hired native Kikuyu trust their "Msabu," as she does not hesitate to heal, teach, and occasionally arbitrate, without showing the superiority of the white ethnicity, which had long treated the land stolen from the indigenous peoples merely as a safari. The landscape of equatorial Kenya, enchanting, proud, and harsh at the same time, prepares the author of this colorful semi-autobiographical piece for painful losses. And yet it retains a hint of a lost paradise, to which the heart fondly returns in memories like to a mother's embrace. The story was filmed by director Sydney Pollack with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in the lead roles. The 1985 film won seven Oscars and three Golden Globes. Interpreter: Vilma Cibulková Duration of recording: 14 hours 34 minutes