Kurt Luedtke won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Out of Africa and wrote Absence of Malice. He had been executive editor of the Detroit Free Press.
Kurt LuedtkeSydney Pollack's 1985 Karen Blixen Kenya romance. Out of Africa is Sydney Pollack's 1985 American romantic drama adapted from Isak Dinesen's memoir, depicting a Danish baroness who establishes a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya and conducts a romance with a…
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