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Starring
Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies

Director
Werner Herzog

Year
2006

Genre
Action

Synopsis
In the annals of history's great escapes there is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle when his plane is shot down on his first top-secret mission over Laos, trapping him in an impassable jungle far from US control.

In his first screenplay written entirely in English, Werner Herzog directs Christian Bale in the incredible true story of a renegade who, from the depths of total darkness, blazed his own willful path to freedom revealing how Dieter Dengler relied on the most primal qualities of evasion, endurance, tenacity and courage to find his way home.

As he makes his way into the jungle, joined by two fellow captives (Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies), his journey will never let up, as it takes him from the bonds of fraternity to the brink of despair, to one of the most remarkable rescues in modern history.

Werner Herzog was close friends with the real Dieter Dengler. Ten years ago Herzog made the acclaimed documentary, "Little Dieter Needs To Fly," about Dengler. Dengler died in 2001 of Lou Gehrig's disease.

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