Movie

Louis Schittly, de terre et de guerre

(fr)

2023

52m

Louis Schittly, de terre et de guerre

Documentary

Overview: Louis Schittly was born in 1938, in a peasant family of a small village of Sundgau, in Bernwiller, in Alsace. He was destined to take over the family farm, but the war stories that rocked his childhood change his dreams. Having become a doctor, he went to see wars up close: Biafra, Vietnam, Afghanistan, South Sudan. In 1969 at the Santana hospital in Biafra, he fought against the famine which was ravaging children. He and his friends will be nicknamed the Frenchs Doctors; they create Médecins Sans Frontières with Bernard Kouchner.

Status: Released

Release date: May 4, 2023

Countries of origin: France,

Production companies
  • Supermouche Productions
  • France Télévisions

Top Cast

Louis Schittly

Louis Schittly

as Self

Bernard Kouchner

Bernard Kouchner

as Self

Vincent Froehly

Vincent Froehly

as Narrator (frenc...

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