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...actually experienced. This is a man who from childhood onward was so selfconscious that he firmly believed whatever he did was a pose. At the age of seven, "I led two lives, both of them untrue. Publicly I was an imposter: the famous grandson of the celebrated Charles Schweitzer; alone, I sank into imaginary moping. I corrected my false glory by false incognito. I had no trouble shifting from one role to the other." There was no trouble shifting, but there was trouble deciding which was him, and in later years the confusion about who he was added greatly...
...bananas, papayas and pineapples; goats, chickens and an occasional antelope. Though missionaries from the Evangelical Covenant network occasionally visited back and forth, amusement was usually family style: games of Scrabble, hymn singing, reading. The kids raised cats and dogs; Wayne built a monkey cage. It was hardly the usual Schweitzer-at-Lambarene scene. Even when the rebels showed up, it was far from dramatic...
Since Yevgeni Gabrilovich and Michail Schweitzer prepared a screenplay which sticks to the plot of the novel and happens to run two-and-a-half hours, and since I happen to be the only one I know who has read Tolstoy's novel, a discussion of plot might be in order now. But leave until last the easy stuff that's been around, as Frank Harris used to say. You should see this movie...
...Resurrection's opening scene, Schweitzer (also director) mounts his camera on E. Savelyeva, who trundles down hundreds of yards of oppressively black corridors. The swaying field and the sharply subdued tonal range of blacks and dark greys continue for several long minutes. Abruptly, the corridor leads into daylight. The camera becomes stable, the greys turn brilliant white, and like the prisoner whose path we have been following, we are glad to be out of the aggravating dark, but able to adjust only slowly to the new light...
...Also the uncle of Albert Schweitzer, who is therefore Sartre's second cousin...