Name: The Dreamer - Becoming Karen Blixen
Released: 2022-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Joachim Fjelstrup, Lars Mikkelsen

The Dreamer - Becoming Karen Blixen

TV Show · Drama · Biography

After 17 years in Kenya, Karen Blixen has lost everything: love, money, health and her home. Ahead of her lies a life deeply dependent on family handouts. However, she regains the will to live and takes up the writing dreams of her youth.

2022 · 45m

Starring Connie Nielsen, Joachim Fjelstrup, Lars Mikkelsen

Director Jeanette Nordahl

EPISODE 1

Part 1

Karen Blixen returns home from Kenya. Destitute and uneducated, she lives at the mercy of her family. She wishes to be independent and tries to become a writer.

44 min
EPISODE 2

Part 2

Karen, in the middle of writing her book, wants to travel to London to find the largest publisher in Europe, but the family won't help her finance the trip.

38 min
EPISODE 3

Part 3

Karen receives a letter from the well-known American writer Dorothy Canfield, who has shown her short stories to an enthusiastic publisher in America.

38 min
EPISODE 4

Part 4

Concerned about possible criticism of her very un-Danish book, Karen is hesitant to publish it in her home country, and she tries to cope with her ill health.

44 min
EPISODE 5

Part 5

Karen is writing her book about her years in East Africa, attracting Glydendal's attention; a disappointing review of Seven Gothic Tales troubles Karen.

41 min
EPISODE 6

Part 6

After seventeen years in Kenya, Karen Blixen has lost everything; she regains the will to live and takes up the writing dreams of her childhood again.

43 min