The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
- Original title
- Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika
- Directed by
- Werner Herzog
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 45 min
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary shows the work of flying doctors who provide medical services in Tanzania and Kenya. It focuses on factual accounts of their daily operations and the people they help.
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What happens
The Flying Doctors of East Africa (German: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying doctors" service of the African Medical and Research Foundation in Tanzania and Kenya. The film is a fairly conventional documentary made during the filming of Herzog's more stylized films Fata Morgana and Even Dwarfs Started Small. Herzog was asked to make this film by some friends of the doctors themselves. The film consists mostly of factual accounts of the doctors' service, mostly avoiding the surrealism and stylizations that characterize the typical Herzog film. Herzog has said, "I do not even call it a film, it is much more a Bericht, a report." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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