The Flying Doctors of East Africa
- The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Infobox_Film
name = The Flying Doctors of East Africa
caption =
director = Werner Herzog
producer = Werner Herzog
narrator = Wilfried Klaus
cinematography = Thomas Mauch
editing = Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
starring = Sir Michael Wood
music =
released = 1969
runtime = 45 minutes
language = German
English
imdb_id = 0064334
"The Flying Doctors of East Africa" ( _de. 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. The film is a fairly conventional documentary made during the filming of Herzog's more stylized films "Fata Morgana" and "Even Dwarfs Started Small".[cite book]
last = Herzog
first = Werner
title = Herzog on Herzog
publisher = Faber and Faber
date = 2001
pages = 303
isbn = 0-571-20708-1 ] Herzog was asked to make this film by some friends of the doctors themselves.
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