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Release Date: Jul 27, 2007
Running Time: 120 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English and Vietnamese
Country Of Origin: United States
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. After months plotting his getaway from a harrowing prison and a death-defying journey through some of the world's fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first press conference looking like a dashing movie star and showing neither sentimentality nor bitterness - simply an indomitable will to survive that allowed him to triumph against impossible odds.
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The year's best ensemble cast isn't even Rescue Dawn's biggest asset. That would be writer-director Werner Herzog, without whom the movie would've been made with uber-testosterone instead of being about it. Story Rescue Dawn is not a movie about war, despite its Vietnam War setting, or even so much a prisoner of war, even though that's what its hero is; rather, it is a true story of a man's will and ability to surviveanything. And with Werner Herzog behind the camera, there couldn't be a better…
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