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Dieter Flies Again in New Herzog Film

Wednesday, Jul 04, 2007 at 8:16am

Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has a new film coming out in July 2007. Rescue Dawn stars Christian Bale in the role of Dieter Dangler, a pilot whose plane was shot down over Laos by the Vietcong in 1966. The film explores, in typical Herzog fashion, the struggle of man against nature--in this case, an impassable jungle (see also his Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo).

Before turning Dangler's story into a screenplay, however, Herzog filmed Dangler's return to the jungle in the 1990s. The result was an award-winnining documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly. According to Herzog, "In a way Rescue Dawn, the feature film idea, was always first. When I met Dieter, I had the feeling this was a very big epic story with a character larger than life. But since it took quite a while to get the money together for the feature, we did the documentary first."

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