André Wilms
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Apr 26, 1995 · Le grand blanc de Lambaréné: Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio. With André Wilms, Marisa Berenson, Alex Descas, Elizabeth Bourgine. Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era.
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- Biography, Drama
- Bassek Ba Kobhio
- 1995-04-26
Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene. A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized.
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- 572
- California Newsreel
Aug 31, 2019 · Bassek Ba Kobhio – Le grand blanc de Lambaréné AKA The Great White of Lambarene (1995) Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era.
Meant to capture the absurdity of white colonial attitudes toward Africa, the story of the last 25 years in the life of Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who, until the time of his death in 1965, spent his time in the village of Lambarene performing "humanitarian" works.
- Bassek Ba Kobhio
- André Wilms
Apr 26, 1995 · LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARÉNÉ is not, however, a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply-felt lament for a missed opportunity, for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened. The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous ...
- Bassek Ba Kobhio
- André Wilms
Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné. Directed by. Bassek Ba Kobhio. Cameroon, Gabon, 1995. Drama. 94. Synopsis. Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a ...
Apr 26, 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.
