Albert schweitzer best biography movies

For the 100th birthday of the jungle hospital in Lambaréné, the legendary documentary film on DVD for the first time, supplemented by early, unreleased film documents

It is Albert Schweitzer's voice that tells his own life, to recordings from his Alsatian homeland, from the career as a university teacher, organist and pastor to the founding of the world-famous jungle hospital in today's Gabon. The film created in 1957 is a document of timeless power. It reports impressively among other things about the arduous construction of the station for 250 lepers in the middle of the jungle on the banks of the Ogowe River. Schweitzer's ideas and ideals live on today in the work of organisations such as Doctors Without Borders, medico international, the International Albert Schweitzer Association (AISL) or in the Albert Schweitzer Children's Villages. High time for the rediscovery of this great role model for humanity and respect for all life.

Extras: "From the jungle hospital of Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene" from 1935 and a making-of.


Bonus material:
"From the jungle hospital of Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene" from 1935; The restoration of the film (2013);

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German-French theologian and philosopher (1875–1965)

For the film, see Albert Schweitzer (film). For the American artist, see Albert Schweitzer (artist). For other uses, see Albert Schweitzer (disambiguation).

Ludwig Philipp Albert SchweitzerOM (German:[ˈalbɛʁtˈʃvaɪtsɐ]; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German and French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary.

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", becoming the eighth Frenchman to be awarded that prize. His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung).

Early years

Schweitzer was born on 14 January 1875 in Kaysersberg in Alsace, in what had less than four years previously become the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire; he later became a citizen of France after World War I, when Alsace became French territory again. He was the son of Adèle (née Schillinger) and Louis Théophile Schweitzer. He spent his childhood in Gunsbach, also in Alsace, where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor of the EPCAAL, taught him how to play music. The tiny village would become home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer (AIAS

This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his b... Read allThis biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equato... Read allThis biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full ... Read all