Bille August, the Danish Academy Award winning director, returns with a hauntingly beautiful depiction of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke. The Pact — part of the Palm Springs International Film Festival and AFI European Union Films Showcase — is a remarkable adaptation of Bjørnvig’s bestselling memoir.
The story is set in the year 1948, when the sixty-three year old author of Out of Africa is a solitary literary sensation, afflicted by syphilis and a sense of emptiness.