The Academy Award winning movie, BABETTE'S FEAST, is based on a book by Isak Dinesen. Dineson wrote the book on which the movie, OUT OF AFRICA, was based.

In BABETTE'S FEAST the author very creatively weaves the story of Phillipa and Martina, two daughters of a well-known Lutheran pastor in a village in the north of Denmark in the late 1870s. Their father's very rigid and strict religious discipline has shaped the entire community~s approach to life and to the expression of their Christian faith. The community shows a decided lack of JOY and CELEBRATION.

The father is very possessive of his daughters and prevents them from marrying. Eventually he dies leaving his daughters to carry on the tradition of rigid discipline which he has established. The daughters do carry on just as their fath…