Word: gunsbach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oppressive heat; as a result, the film's general quality smacks of better-than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love as a boy all pass before the camera as expected. The audience moves leisurely along with the film to the time when, at thirty, Schweitzer made his decision...
Like too many documentaries, this one would be monotonous if it did not convey a charm which the audience feels increasingly as the picture progresses. Gunsbach looks as friendly and quaint as the post-cards of Spring in Alsace, but Schweitzer's narration tells how he grew up in the village, and this village lives for the audience. Sensitive shots of Lambarene's patients: a tired woman nursing a tired baby; a disarmingly attractive child with leprosy; men scratching their bottoms because they itch; all add to the charm...
Quietly boarding a train's third-class carriage in his old Alsatian home town of Gunsbach, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 80, some four decades after renouncing already notable careers in music and philosophy to become a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa, rolled off to London. Forgoing fancy hotels in favor of staying with a longtime Alsatian friend who runs a teashop, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Schweitzer one day drew on a shabby, dark overcoat, headed for Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth II invested him with the insigne of the exclusive (24 members) Order of Merit. As a non-Briton...
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