Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats (2019)

Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats

2019

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Herbert Ostwald

Cast

Andrew Solomon as Narrator

Crew

Norbert Röttcher (Director of Photography)

Roland Gockel (Director of Photography)

Jan Stefan Kolbe (Editor)

Bernd Wilting (Executive Producer)

Mark Joggerst (Original Music Composer)

Uli Veith (Producer)