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This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.
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Audiences 60GoodWatch 63
IMDb6.0
Running time
1 h 21 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −15 min on the typical 96
typical 9681Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
1957
November 22, 1957
69 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryHistoryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
FrenchGermanMade in
France
United States
Directing · 1
- Jerome Hill Director, Producer, Presenter
Writing · 1
- Thomas Bruce Morgan Dialogue
Editing · 3
- Henry A. Sundquist Editor
- Luke Bennett Editor
- Julia Knowlton Editor
Sound · 3
- Alec Wilder Music
- Léon Barzin Conductor
- C. Robert Fine Sound Engineer
Other crew · 1
- Erica Anderson Cinematography, Presenter
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