
This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin.
GQFarkas (as Gregory J. Qaiyum)
Zach GrenierSquad Leader
Evan JonesPilot
Marshall BellAdmiral
Christian BaleDieterBased on Werner Herzog's documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997).
Dieter:
When I was uhh... five or somethin', I was looking out the window, with my brother... and we see this fighter plane was coming right at us. I was not scared. I was mesmerized! Because for me, this pilot was this all-mighty being from the clouds. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be him. I wanted to be one of them. I wanted to be a pilot.
Continuity: Dengler's Squadron was VA-145, the squadron painted on the side of his crashed Skyraider plainly says VA-25.
Composed by Jack Shaindlin
Courtesy of APM
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