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Release date
  
1969

Initial release
  
1969

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Directed by
  
Werner Herzog

Starring
  
Sir Michael Wood

Running time
  
45 minutes

Director
  
Werner Herzog

Narrated by
  
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Edited by
  
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

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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. The film is a fairly conventional documentary made during the filming of Herzog's more stylized films Fata Morgana and Even Dwarfs Started Small.

Herzog was asked to make this film by some friends of the doctors themselves. The film consists mostly of factual accounts of the doctors' service, mostly avoiding the surrealism and stylizations that characterize the typical Herzog film. Herzog has said, "I do not even call it a film, it is much more a Bericht, a report."

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The Flying Doctors of East Africa Wikipedia


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