Rescue Dawn
Werner Herzog / US, 2006 / 126 min.
In 1997’s Little Dieter Needs to Fly Herzog portrayed an American-German pilot who escaped a POW camp during the Vietnam war. 12 years later, Herzog adapted Dengler’s story into the feature film Rescue Dawn featuring an intense Christian Bale.
In early 1966, midway through the Vietnam war, navy pilot Dieter Dengler’s plane is shot down over Laos. Dengler survives the crash, but is almost immediately taken prisoner by the communist resistance movement Pathet Lao. He refuses to submit, continuing to hope for escape. When the time finally comes, the privations of the camp are just the intro to the trials awaiting him and his companion on their flight through the jungle.
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Director
Werner Herzog
Production year
2006
Country
US
Original title
Rescue Dawn
Length
126 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Werner Herzog
Eye Filmmuseum presents an exhibition and extensive film programme around the work of celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog. With an unorthodox oeuvre of more than seventy features, documentaries and shorts, Herzog has fascinated audiences with unforgettable stories, images and characters for more than half a century. His films grant us insights into the relationship between people and the chaotic world around them, as well as into the endless indifference of nature towards human life.
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