films-set-in-the-1910s

"It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."

"I had a compass from Denys. To steer by, he said. But later it came to me that we navigated differently. Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."

"Robert Redford as Denys Finch Hatton"

"Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen"

"Klaus Maria Brandauer as Bror and Hans von Blixen-Finecke"

"Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole"

"Shane Rimmer as Belknap"

"Malick Bowens as Farah Aden"

"Joseph Thiaka as Kamante"

"Stephen Kinyanjui as Chief Kinanjui"

"Michael Gough as Hugh Cholmondeley, Lord Delamere"

"Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity Spurway"

"Rachel Kempson as Sarah, Lady Belfield"

"Graham Crowden as Henry, Lord Belfield"

"Leslie Phillips as Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne"

"Annabel Maule as Lady Byrne"

"Donal McCann as Doctor in Nairobi"

"Benny Young as Minister"

"Iman as Mariammo"

"Job Seda as Kanuthia"