The Great White of Lambarene (1995)

Overview

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.

Cast

André Wilms

Albert Schweitzer

Marisa Berenson

Helene Schweitzer

Alex Descas

Koumba

Élisabeth Bourgine

Ingrid

Philippe Maury

Le sorcier

Anne-Marie Pisani

Berta