Movies:
Albert Schweitzer
DVD Release
- Release Date: 2005
- Introduction by Ingrid Newkirk (PETA)
- Thurston Moore with a look at the production of the celebrated play, "Words Of Albert Schweitzer and the Music of Bach."
- "Toxie In Africa."
- Bonus from the ROAN archive
- "Radiation March"
- ... and more!
- Rating:
- Genre: Culture & Society
- Movie Type: Medicine, Biography
- Themes: Doctors and Patients
- Director: Jerome Hill
- Main Cast: Fredric March
- Release Year: 1957
- Country: US
- Run Time: 80 minutes
Plot
Albert Schweitzer is an 80-minute color documentary on the life of the famed doctor/humanitarian. The film is essentially divided into two sections: The first details Schweitzer's youth in Austria, via still pictures and reconstructed scenes featuring Schweitzer's own grandson. The second half dwells upon Schweitzer's tireless medical efforts at his Lambarene hospital in French Equatorial Africa. The narration, based upon Schweitzer's own writings, is spoken by Fredric March and Burgess Meredith. Though the color photography by Eric Anderson is uneven (understandably, considering filming conditions in Africa), Albert Schweitzer is a superbly mounted testimonial to the then 80-year-old physician. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideCast
- Fredric March - Narrator
Albert Schweitzer
