Her work had inspired films in other countries, most notably Orson Welles' 1968 version of The Immortal Story, but Danish backers were unconvinced by the idea of mounting a production of the short story that inspired the film. However, Dinesen was a difficult selling point in her native country when Axel tried to get the project off the ground. For fifteen years he intended this film to be a homecoming of sorts as well as a tribute to one of the country's greatest writers, Isak Dinesen, a pen name for Karen Blixen. Though now regarded as one of the most acclaimed and popular Danish films as well as a masterpiece of culinary cinema, Babette's Feast (1987) was a challenge to get off the ground for writer/director Gabriel Axel, who was born in Denmark in 1918 and made films there into the 1970s before shifting his attention to features and TV work in France.
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