A true story of survival... declassified.
Rescue dawn (written and directed by Werner Herzog) tells the true story of US Navy Lieutenant Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a renegade German-born American, who is shot down on his first mission and crash lands in Laos. While the rest of his squadron searches for him, Dangler is captured and tortured by Pathet Laos troops, eventually landing in a camp with other American POWs. To escape certain death, Dengler and the other POWs make a daring escape through the jungle and build a raft to take them downriver. After Duane Martin (Steve Zahn), his last fellow escapee, is beheaded by a local villager, Dengler finds himself alone once again. After 22 days struggling to survive, Dengler is finally rescued by a US plane, only to find himself under scrutiny by the CIA because of his knowledge of the illegal incursion into Laos.
Special Agent Matti
Woo hoo! Rescue dawn is definitely one for the boys. It's got blokes running around in the jungle shooting at other blokes and everything. There's a big explosion and some torturing and some starving and some more starving and some running around and some mateship and even a bloody dog. It's some hard-core suffering but it's worth it in the end.
PS When politicians go to war, soldiers die.
PPS You won't believe that fucking jungle.
The Dieter Dengler, true, war movie Rescue dawn is directed by Werner Herzog and stars Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies.
MA 15+ (Infrequent strong violence)
125 minutes (2:05 hours)
Film: 22 November 2007
