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Herzog on the Heroic Journey in 'Rescue Dawn'

Fresh Air

Published July 25, 2007 at 8:00 AM PDT

German filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his new film Rescue Dawn, a Hollywood adaptation of his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Both the movie and the documentary are based on the true story of Dieter Dengler, the only U.S. pilot to successfully escape from a North Vietnamese-controlled prison.