Synopsis

NOMINATED FOR: Best Supporting Male

There is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle. Now, from legendary director Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man,” “Fitzcarraldo”) and starring acclaimed actor Christian Bale (“Batman Begins,” “The Prestige”) comes the incredible true story of a man who, from the depths of total darkness, blazed his own willful path to freedom. A blistering action-adventure and a stark epic of survival, RESCUE DAWN reveals how Dieter Dengler relied on the most primal qualities of evasion, endurance, tenacity and courage to find his way home.

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