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

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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