Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats

201952m
Documentary

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.

Crew

Herbert Ostwald

Herbert Ostwald

Writer

MJ

Mark Joggerst

Original Music Composer

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Norbert Röttcher

Director of Photography

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Uli Veith

Producer

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Roland Gockel

Director of Photography

Herbert Ostwald

Herbert Ostwald

Director

Cast

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Andrew Solomon

Narrator

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