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Flying doctors of East Africa (The)

  • Flying doctors of East Africa (The)
© Werner Herzog Film
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title : Fliegenden ärzte von Ostrafrika (Die)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1969
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 45 (in minutes)
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Documentary on the work of an independent group of physicians in remote areas of East Africa. A film about the differing mindsets of African patients and Western medicine, a difference that calls for a new way of thinking.

German, English
45 minutes, 35 mm, colour
1969

CREW
Director: Werner Herzog
Executive Producer: Eleonore Semler
Director of Photography: Thomas Mauch
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus


DISTRIBUTION
Transtel
with Werner Herzog Film - World Sales
Available Formats 35/16mm, Video


GENERAL
Original Title: DIE FLIEGENDEN ÄRZTE VON OSTAFRIKA

Original Screenplay: Werner Herzog

Year of production: 1969
Duration: 45 min.
Length: 1242 m
Format: 35 mm
Aspect ratio: 1:1,33
Colour: - b/w colour

Original language version: German
Additional language versions (links to dialogue/subtitle-lists): English

Location: Kenia

Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Co-Producers: Gesellschaft für Medizin u. Forschung in Afrika e. V.

Laboratory: Bavaria, Munich
Budget: DM 40.000
Rating: 6 years

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