Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 52 min
  • Premiere: 2019. January 1.

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.

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Andrew Solomon

Narrator

Camera

Norbert Röttcher

Director of Photography

Roland Gockel

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Production

Bernd Wilting

Executive Producer

Uli Veith

Producer

Sound

Mark Joggerst

Original Music Composer

Writing

Camera

Norbert Röttcher

Director of Photography

Roland Gockel

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Production

Bernd Wilting

Executive Producer

Uli Veith

Producer

Sound

Mark Joggerst

Original Music Composer

Writing