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Director:
Writer:
Werner Herzog (written by)
Release Date:
27 July 2007 (USA)
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Tagline:
A true story of survival... declassified. more
Plot:
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. full summary | full synopsis
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Pilot
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Laos
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Escape
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Vietnam War
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German American
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Awards:
1 win
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4 nominations
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(64 articles)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(From FilmShaft.com. 24 November 2009, 1:26 AM, PST)
Geek Deal: Three Blu-Ray Movie Packs for $25
(From Slash Film. 21 November 2009, 1:39 PM, PST)
(From FilmShaft.com. 24 November 2009, 1:26 AM, PST)
Geek Deal: Three Blu-Ray Movie Packs for $25
(From Slash Film. 21 November 2009, 1:39 PM, PST)
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Outstanding tale of survival
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Zach Grenier | ... | Squad Leader |
 | Marshall Bell | ... | Admiral |
 | Christian Bale | ... | Dieter |
 | Toby Huss | ... | Spook |
 | Pat Healy | ... | Norman |
| GQ | ... | Farkas (as Gregory J. Qaiyum) |
 | James Oliver | ... | Jet Pilot |
| Brad Carr | ... | U.S. Navy Pilot |
| Saichia Wongwiroj | ... | Pathet Lao Guard |
 | François Chau | ... | Province Governor (as Francois Chau) |
| Teerawat Mulvilai | ... | Little Hitler (as Teerawat 'Ka-Ge' Mulvilai) |
| Mr. Yuttana Muenwaja | ... | Crazy Horse (as Yuttana Muenwaja) |
| Kriangsak Ming-olo | ... | Jumbo |
| Somkuan 'Kuan' Siroon | ... | Nook the Rook |
| Chorn Solyda | ... | Walkie Talkie |
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Rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense war violence and torture.
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126 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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UK:12A |
Ireland:15A |
USA:PG-13 |
Netherlands:16 |
Canada:13+ (Québec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) |
Finland:K-13 |
Australia:MA |
Brazil:14 |
Singapore:PG |
Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) |
New Zealand:M |
Argentina:13 |
South Korea:15
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At nearly $5.5 million dollars in the United States, this is the highest grossing film to date (March 2008) for Werner Herzog (his films have generally played in art-houses in the US).
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Anachronisms: In the supply scene, before setting out for the mission, the U.S. passport Dieter shows is not only the wrong color (blue rather than green), but is also the smaller size in use today rather than the larger size in use at the time.
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Voice from Another World
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If you're a big fan of the mad German genius Werner Herzog, you might be disappointed in this, his first foray into Hollywood film-making. This is polished and not at all experimental. However, to me it feels like Herzog, when he stepped up to the plate, said to himself, "Well, I can make an American film. And I can make a better one than 95% of American films." And there's nothing wrong with that. The film is a dramatization of the events retold in Herzog's earlier documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Christian Bale plays Dieter Dengler, an American citizen and German emigré who had one of the most impressive survival instincts ever seen in a human being. Shot down in Laos in the opening throes of the Vietnam War, he was taken to a brutal POW camp where he met two other American POWs (Jeremy Davies and Steven Zahn in the film) and three Asian men who had worked with the enemy. The two Americans had been there for an average of a couple of years, and had all but given up hope (the Davies character is sure there will be peace soon enough). Through his amazing ingenuity, Dieter planned a heroic escape. Most of the movie takes place in the POW camp. Most of what I remember from Little Dieter Needs to Fly, which I saw around two years ago, is the escape. It's a disturbing, horrifying tale of survival. I would have liked this part to be the longer, but it works very well. It's certainly harrowing. I was disappointed that one of the images I really remember from the original film did not appear: the bear that stalked Dieter during his final days wandering in the jungle. He considered it almost a friend, but in the back of his mind realized it was following him because it wanted to eat him. Herzog keeps things extremely subtle, telling them very much the way they happened. The story develops more like real life, not like a movie. It keeps melodrama to a minimum. My only problem is how it ends. The ending is way too boisterous and uplifting. Dieter Dengler was most definitely an upbeat kind of guy, but his suffering and the awful things that he saw – heck, with the awful things that we just experienced with him, so vivid is this movie – don't lead well to the celebration that ends the movie. I very much liked this film, and think it is one of the best I've seen so far this year.