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Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats (2019)
Directed by Herbert Ostwald
Documentary · 52m
Africa's giant rats – the size of a cat – can be trained to detect land-mines by smelling them. Giant rats are clever and they learn fast. Their sense of smell is better than a dog's, they have more stamina, and they're a lot cheaper to train. This documentary follows "Miss Marple", who was born in a training lab and who goes through a year's training before being sent on her first mission to Mozambique. A shorter version (43 minutes) screened at festivals in 2009 but was never widely released.
Cast
Andrew Solomon
Crew
- Director
- Herbert Ostwald
- Writer
- Herbert Ostwald
- Director of Photography
- Roland Gockel, Norbert Röttcher
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Joggerst
- Editor
- Jan Stefan Kolbe
- Producer
- Uli Veith
Details
- Release date
- 2019-01-01
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Taglicht Media