Biographical drama starring Malcolm McDowell and Susan Strasberg. Nobel Peace Prize winner Doctor Albert Schweitzer has to overcome both the hostility of local people and the interference of outside interests when he establishes a hospital in a remote African jungle.
Alternatively called The Light in the Jungle, as well as Schweitzer and Lambarene, this clumsy biopic rather dims the brightness of its subject, Albert Schweitzer, musician, intellectual, missionary and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who rejected European acclaim to minister to disease-ridden natives in the African jungle as a kind of male Mother Teresa. It's not a whitewash according to this - he ran his deliberately run-down hospital like a tyrant - but its simplistic plot doesn't do the man justice. However, Malcolm McDowell is at the top of a form that wasn't even suggested by his starring role in if... over 20 years previously.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Dr Albert Schweitzer | Malcolm McDowell |
| Helene Schweitzer | Susan Strasberg |
| Lionel Curtis | Andrew Davis |
| Amanda Hampton | Helen Jessop |
| Horton Herschel | John Carson |
| Onganga | Henry Cele |
| Joseph | Patrick Shai |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Gray Hofmeyr |
