Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene.
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1995.
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A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. 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. Shot on the site of Schweitzer's hospital in Gabon, Bassek ba Kobhio elicits psychologically complex portrayals from his actors as he did in his earlier California Newsreel release, Sango Malo. Behind Schweitzer's impenetrable reserve, Ba Kobhio discovers a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption and arrogance. For Schweitzer to see himself as a stern but loving father, he had to cast Africans as childlike primitives whom he could protect from the temptations of modernity. He even refused to install electrical generators or institute modern sanitation in his hospital's wards. In the film, an African boy Schweitzer discouraged from becoming a doctor, returns with his degree and rebukes him: "The independence of the people has never been your concern. You only wanted to share their hell in the hope of reaching your heaven." The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous, creative human beings. Schweitzer knew numerous European languages but never learned to speak the local tongue; he was an accomplished organist and Bach scholar who never evinced any interest in African music. Ba Kobhio represents the richness of Africa through Bissa, a beautiful concubine the local chief gives le Grand Blanc. Though clearly tempted, Schweitzer remains aloof; only at his death does he invite her to sleep in his bed rather than on a mat. The film's epigraph, ironically, is a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: "All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them." "Gripping, vast, animated, with something profoundly magical...In Le Grand Blanc... the cinema truly meets Africa." - Le Nouvel Observateur. "Audacious...The filmmaker presents the story of Schweitzer from an incisive, intellectually provocative point of view." - Le Monde. "Challenging...Period detail is painstakingly recreated to present an utterly unromantic view of colonial Africa." - Variety. "Though the subject is in the past, the filmmaker succeeds in describing today's Africa of humanitarian NGOs and voluntary doctors of which Schweitzer was, unwittlingly, the forerunner." - Ecrans d'Afrique.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bassek Ba Kobhio 1957-., Berenson, M. 1., & Wilms, A. 1. (2015). Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene . Kanopy Streaming.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bassek Ba Kobhio 1957-, Marisa 1947- Berenson and André 1947- Wilms. 2015. Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene. Kanopy Streaming.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bassek Ba Kobhio 1957-, Marisa 1947- Berenson and André 1947- Wilms. Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bassek Ba Kobhio 1957-, Marisa 1947- Berenson, and André 1947- Wilms. Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

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