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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
830 Views


these guys. You'll regret it.

- Hi. Dieter Dengler.

- All right, let's go. Give it over.

Who won the World Series?

- The World Series?

- Yeah.

- I don't know...

- Hey, man, the guy don't like baseball?

You don't like baseball?

- No, I don't know. I don't follow baseball.

- I'm Yik Chiu Tuo.

- Yik Chiu Tuo?

- They call me Y.C.

- Okay, Y.C.

- Y.C.

Hi, I'm Dieter Dengler.

- Dieter Dengler.

- Yeah.

We all flew together for Air America.

Yeah, I'm world champion of bad luck.

But I tell you something, I'm undefeatable.

Hi. Phisit.

- Phisit.

- My name is Phisit.

- Dieter. Dieter.

- Yeah.

Procet Kam Phong Kit.

- What?

- Procet.

- Okay.

- Procet.

What was that?

- Procet.

- It's okay.

Okay.

- That was actually Procet... Got that?

- Right.

- But you need to call him Procet.

- Okay, Procet.

That's what we call him.

He's also Air America.

- Also got shot down flying supplies...

- Okay, okay.

...to royalist villages,

- just like the rest of us.

- And when was that?

Two... No, two and a half year ago now.

- Two and a half years ago?

- Oh, yeah.

I had no idea that we were here

for that long.

Yeah, been here a lot longer

than people know.

- Duane Martin.

- Duane Martin. I'm Dieter Dengler.

United States Air Force. I was shot down

about a year and a half ago.

- Okay.

- And when this war starts,

we'll be here a lot longer

than we already have.

Well, you see...

How many more times you think

I'm gonna have to say,

like I been saying and saying and saying

and saying again,

that we will never go to war

in Vietnam, man?

- DIETER:
No, they just...

- They, no...

Because any day now... Listen.

They will what?

- Yeah, Christmas come every day.

- They...

They will release us, man.

(LAUGHING)

They will let us go any day now.

- No, you see...

- Gene, by the way.

- Gene.

- But listen.

It's... The trick to it is it's actually Eugene.

- Okay, Eugene.

- Eugene DeBruin from

- Eugene, Oregon.

- Okay.

- How do you like that?

- Yeah.

See how that works out? Name, name...

Jesus Christ, not this Oregon sh*t, again.

I've heard this over 2,000 goddamn times.

- Eugene from Eugene.

- Oh, yeah, right. Eugene from Eugene.

- You know what? You know what? Listen.

- Yeah.

What you really need to know is

you see this man here?

Take a good look at him. He, he...

Listen now, he shits in his pants

every night without fail, man.

Trust me.

And you know the only thing that he

thinks is worth complaining about?

You know what that is?

- This man right here.

- Right.

- Eugene from Eugene.

- From Eugene.

Okay.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

GENE:
Dieter.

Take a careful look to your right.

You see that guy there?

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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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