"Rescue Dawn": Werner Herzog's Vietnam War Drama
Schedule
Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+07:00Location
META HOUSE | Phnom Penh, PP
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In 1997’s “Little Dieter Needs to Fly”, German director Werner Herzog portrayed an American-German pilot who escaped a POW camp during the Vietnam war. 12 years later, Herzog adapted Dengler’s story into the feature film “Rescue Dawn”, shot in Thailand. Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is shot down over Laos and taken captive by enemy soldiers. Herzog’s work is all about extremes: extreme personalities, extreme situations, extremes of nature and mind. Usually, however, one term dominates, and though in “Rescue Dawn” the drama is full of arduous challenges, we’d guess that what propelled Herzog to make the film were not the overt extremes of its story or setting, but the personality at its center.
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Where is it happening?
META HOUSE, #48, Street 228, Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, CambodiaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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