Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats (2019) - Double Feature

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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.


Main Cast: Andrew Solomon

Director: Herbert Ostwald

Writer: Herbert Ostwald

Editor: Jan Stefan Kolbe

Cinematographers: Roland Gockel, Norbert Röttcher


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