1969 · documentary · africa · medicine
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Directed by Werner Herzog45m1969
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.
Our read: The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded documentary · africa · medicine entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured documentary / africa, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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