“Rescue Dawn”/ “Little Dieter Needs To Fly”
Just saw this on a german website:
The german director Werner Herzog will film the pilot drama “Rescue Dawn”. The film showes the life history of the german pilot Dieter Dangler
Herzog has already filmed a documentation under the title “Little
Dieter needs to fly – Escape from Laos” in 1997
The main role in the strip becomes Christian Bale , Steve Zahn (Sahara) plays one of the fellow prisoners. Filming begins in August in Thailand.
Here the plot:
While growing up in desolated post-WW II Germany, Dieter Dengler, the son of a Nazi slain during the war, dreamed about was becoming a pilot. At age 18, he left his country with only a few cents to his name and emigrated to the U.S. Landing in San Francisco, he worked odd jobs until he was accepted into the Navy and began pilot training. He was sent to Vietnam around 1966 and on his first mission was shot down and taken prisoner. There, the Vietcong tortured and starved him until Dengler engineered a hair-raising escape and eventually returned to the U.S. where his heroic life story has been forgotten until now.
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