Albert Schweitzer (Albert Schweitzer: Ein Leben für Afrika) (2009)

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Directed by

Gavin Millar

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Jeroen Krabbé
Albert Schweitzer

Barbara Hershey
Helene Schweitzer

Judith Godrèche
Thérèse Bourdin

Samuel West
Phil Figgis

Jeanette Hain
Rhena Schweitzer

Patrice Naiambana
Louis Ngouta

Jonathan Firth
Dr. David Fuller

Armin Rohde
Albert Einstein

Written by

Gavin Millar
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Description: 1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world, thanks to his philosophy of Reverence for Life which he lives out in his hospital in Lambarene, West Africa. When he is urged by Albert Einstein to speak out against the hydrogen bomb tests, U.S. national security agencies consider this a denunciation of Western politics. A smear campaign is launched to discredit the septuagenarian's reputation and to silence him. The investigative journalist Phil Figgis is sent to Lambarene to dig up dirt on Schweitzer and initiate a mutiny of some of the hospital doctors and loc ... (more)

Release date: 24 December 2009

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