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...Albert Schweitzer is one of the greatest, if not the great man of our time. In an hour and a half his film biography tries to express this fact by reviewing his life, and then by showing a typical day at his Lambarene hospital in Equatorial Africa...
...documentary contains little more information about Schweitzer than can be found in a very short biographical essay. Most of the scenes were shot in Africa in oppressive heat; as a result, the film's general quality smacks of better-than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love...
...wanted was U.S. support for the French argument that the U.N. has no right to interfere in the Algerian rebellion because Algeria is legally a part of France. To win this support France pulled out all the propaganda stops. From his remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning the U.S. not to make France...
...rest of the picture is a fairly candid camera record of how Schweitzer today, half a century after he made the central decision of his life, is still paying humanity's claim. His hospital at Lambaréné, two days up the Ogowe River, is a rough compound of iron-roofed wooden shacks in a jungle clearing. Schweitzer and his small staff-three doctors, nine nurses -work with comparatively crude instruments (complicated medical gadgets invariably break down in the jungle climate). They have modern drugs, but they do not despise the native alexins. Says Schweitzer: "I have...
...film conveys a strong impression that Schweitzer is a forceful personality in whom will and energy are more apparent than saintliness. He is gruff but grandfatherly with his native patients, appears relieved when he can spend a couple of hours at his manuscripts or, best of all, in the company of his prize possession: a heat-resistant, termite-repellent piano. Schweitzer has said that he did not go to Africa to civilize but to atone...