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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
835 Views


We call him Little Hitler

for a very good reason.

He is the worst.

This one we call Jumbo.

DIETER:
Oh, wow.

That's the first smile I've seen

since I was shot down.

Yeah. He's, in fact,

one of the only truly nice guys here.

This is Nook the Rook right here.

He's also very much not a nice guy.

- What is his problem?

- It's all right. Just keep going.

His problem is he's Crazy Horse.

That's what we call him.

And he is a bastard. Keep going.

And I just cannot stand him.

- That's Walkie Talkie.

- Walkie Talkie?

We call him that 'cause he does not speak.

Never, never.

Hey, do yourself a favor, Kraut.

Keep your head down

and your mouth shut.

That's your best chance of surviving.

So there is a war.

There is a war.

All right. So tell me about

the peace talks, man. Geneva?

There's got to be peace talks, man.

Shut up, Gene.

There is no goddamn conference.

When are you gonna get that

through your skull?

Secret talks, man.

I'm just talking about secret talks.

Forget it.

We're not getting out.

No, no, no, there was a honcho

on the outside,

he said I would not be here too long.

They tell that to everyone

to get them to sign.

No, I did not sign. No.

Anyway, nice having met you.

What do you mean, met?

Well, my friends,

you can rot in here if you like,

but I'm gonna scram this very night.

This hut, it ain't no prison.

Scram. I like that. I like that.

Listen, listen, my friend,

you cannot escape.

If you try to escape,

you'll screw up our release.

Look, I don't give a sh*t about our release

or whatever you think is gonna happen.

But without water, you won't survive

more than two days out there.

And without water,

your tracks will be visible for even more.

The jungle is the prison. Don't you get it?

Hey, when does the rainy season start?

Five months, maybe six.

I can't wait that long.

Hey, listen, let's say you do survive

the jungle and lack of water,

whatever you find, snakes and animals

and sh*t are out there,

you won't make it out of camp.

There's six guards posted during the day.

Yeah.

That is during the day.

I'm going at night.

Why, what happens at night?

No.

No.

No.

I'm shitting my intestines out.

Again.

I'm sorry, I can't help it.

You just sh*t right on my hand again, man.

- Sorry.

- That makes it 2,207 times and counting.

Leave the guy alone, okay?

There ain't no alone, brother.

Does anybody have a nail?

What are you gonna do with a nail?

You're gonna stab all the lousy guards

to death with a nail?

What kind of plane you fly off of?

- Procet has got a shard of glass, man.

- No, that's no good.

I have porcupine needle.

No.

I've got a hammer and a socket wrench

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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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