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Synopsis: In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally deranged prisoners and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal splits the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison.
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: MGM
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
PG-13
Year:
2006
120 min
$5,300,124
Website
829 Views


I'm not gonna bail out!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(GUN SHOTS FIRlNG)

(MUTTERING)

DIETER:
Oh, come on.

Come on.

Come on, search planes.

Where are you?

Where have you gone?

Come on.

God, how can it get this hot?

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(SOFTLY) Hey. Hey.

I need to go to the bathroom.

I need...

I need to go to the bathroom.

Yeah. I need to take a sh*t.

Hey. Hey.

I need to take a sh*t.

Oh, sh*t.

Hey. Hey.

Does nobody listen to me?

Why doesn't anybody listen around here?

Why don't you listen to me?

I said I needed the bathroom

and now I've sh*t myself.

Why doesn't anybody listen around here?

I've sh*t my pants.

(HELICOPTER CHUGGING)

(MUTTERING)

They can't hear us.

They can't see us through the treetops.

It's not my fault. I didn't signal them.

(SHOUTING) Don't ever, ever do that again!

You better just shoot me right away!

Don't you ever do that again!

(INAUDIBLE)

(SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(EXPLOSION)

This is unusual.

You American pilots normally attack us

earlier in the day. Sit.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

No English.

German.

Why don't you admit

that you are an American?

Yes.

I am an American citizen,

and I love my country.

But why are you in this war against us?

I never wanted to go to war.

I never wanted to go to...

I saw enough as a child.

I only wanted to fly.

Then you should sign this.

"Condemning the imperialistic aggression

"of the corrupt and debased political

establishment of the United States... "

What else would you call it?

"... against innocent children

and the peace loving working classes. "

No, I cannot sign this. I cannot sign it.

If you sign this, we would be your friends.

- You could be released in two weeks if...

- I cannot sign this.

- It's against my...

- Your what?

I mean, what is in here?

What isn't here?

I love America. America gave me wings.

I will not sign it, absolutely not.

No way.

Your choice.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(PANTING)

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(MUMBLING)

The quick have their sleepwalkers,

and so do the dead.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Hey.

- Hey. Hey.

- GENE:
Hey, there. Who's that? Hello.

GENE:
Hey, you American?

- What?

- GENE:
He's American.

(LAUGHING)

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm American.

My name is Dieter. I'm a U.S. Navy pilot.

And originally I was born in Germany...

- DUANE:
Be quiet.

- ... but I am a U.S. citizen now.

- DUANE:
Quiet.

- What?

- Who's that?

- DUANE:
Quiet.

Why? I'm whispering.

- Little Hitler's coming.

- Who?

- Little Hitler.

- Who's that?

Who's Little Hitler?

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Okay.

Now, what the hell is this?

The Middle Ages?

DUANE:
Hey, listen. Don't mess with

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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