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  • Directors: Jerome Hill; Erica Anderson
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: Culture & Society
  • Movie Type: Medicine, Biography
  • Themes: Doctors and Patients
  • 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 Guide

Cast

Fredric March - Narrator; Albert Schweitzer

Credit

Jerome Hill - Director, Erica Anderson - Director, Jerome Hill - Producer

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Albert Schweitzer
Directed by Jerome Hill
Produced by Jerome Hill
Written by Albert Schweitzer
Thomas Bruce Morgan
Narrated by Fredric March
Cinematography Erica Anderson
Editing by Luke Bennett
Release date(s) 22 November, 1957
Running time 85 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Albert Schweitzer is a German biographical documentary made in 1957, directed by Jerome Hill. It won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for 1957. [1]

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References

  1. ^ "NY Times: Albert Schweitzer". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/123586/Albert-Schweitzer/details. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 

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