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028 52 1139691|bKanopy 
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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 03 Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene.|h[Kanopy electronic resource]
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
344    digital 
347    video file|bMPEG-4|bFlash 
500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1995. 
520    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. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Schweitzer, Albert|d1875-1965. 
650  0 Missionaries|xMedical Missionaries|vDrama|zAfrica|zGabon. 
650  0 Nobel Peace Prize winners|vDrama|zAfrica. 
655  7 Feature films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Bassek Ba Kobhio|d1957-|efilm director. 
700 1  Berenson, Marisa |d1947-|eactor. 
700 1  Wilms, André |d1947-|eactor. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
856 40 |uhttps://naperville.kanopy.com/node/139692|zAvailable on 
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