Rescue dawn [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Top Gun Productions present in association with Thema Production, a Gibraltar Films production, a Werner Herzog film ; produced by Steve Marlton, Elton Brand, Harry Knapp ; written and directed by Werner Herzog.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
[Blu-ray version].
Publisher:
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Blu-ray Disc. Title from container. Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies. Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Special features: Commentary by director Werner Herzog and interviewer Norman Hill; deleted scenes with optional commentary by Werner Herzog and Norman Hill; The making of a true story multi-part documentary; Honoring the brave interactive memorial; Preparing for survival featurette; Before the Dawn mission secrets trivia track; photo gallery; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
The optimistic and eager Lt. Dieter Dengler is sent on a classified mission to bomb certain targets in Laos in 1965. With him are his fellow pilots including his best friend Spook. Denlger is shot down and captured, interrogated, tortured, and placed in a prison with fellow inmates Duane, Gene, Phisit, and Procet. The living conditions are deplorable and the men are starved and chained together. This situation makes it possibile of caring for bodily functions negligible and the moral is low. Dengler changes that using his ingenuity and immediately plans for escape. Duane aids Dengler but Gene fears the consequences of an aborted escape attempt. Dengler's expertise and cunning makes escape into the jungle essentially successful. The jungle, eventually, reduces the force to one. As Dengler is rescued he is left with the ghosts of his fellow inmates, a factor that will haunt him and alter his life after rescue. Based on a true story.
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