The Great White of Lambarene (1995)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.

Released April 26, 1995 94 min None+

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Keywords: tmdb.africa, tmdb.independence, tmdb.racial-tension, tmdb.colonialism, tmdb.racial-prejudice, tmdb.humanitarian, tmdb.cameroon + 28 more, imdb.albert-schweitzer-character, imdb.africa, imdb.colonialism, imdb.absurdism, imdb.cameroonian, imdb.gabonese, imdb.french, imdb.gabon, imdb.ogoone-river, imdb.lambarene-gabon, imdb.village, imdb.african, imdb.tribe, imdb.period-piece, imdb.medicine, imdb.hospital, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.husband-wife-relationship, imdb.revisionist-history, imdb.boy, imdb.doctor, imdb.slap, imdb.white-man-slaps-a-black-man, imdb.widower, imdb.reference-to-the-nobel-prize, imdb.year-1960, imdb.cross-culture, imdb.tragedy