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The Flying Doctors of East Africa is a Allemand film of genre Documentary directed by Werner Herzog
The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika
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Add to a movie listLength 45minutes
Directed by Werner Herzog
OriginGerman
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about technology
Rating64%
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, Kenya, and Nairobi. 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."
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