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.
Direction
Early Herzog finding his relentless gaze.
Editing
Tight 45 minutes—no fat, all purpose.
Director
Werner Herzog
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Herzog was 27, shooting this between his first fiction features. It was commissioned German television.
The 'flying doctors' still operate today as AMREF—the film documents a system that outlasted its observers.
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