Rescue Dawn
- 2006
- Tous publics
- 2h 5min
La lutte épique pour la survie d'un pilote de chasse américain après avoir été abattu lors d'une mission au-dessus du Laos pendant la guerre du Vietnam.La lutte épique pour la survie d'un pilote de chasse américain après avoir été abattu lors d'une mission au-dessus du Laos pendant la guerre du Vietnam.La lutte épique pour la survie d'un pilote de chasse américain après avoir été abattu lors d'une mission au-dessus du Laos pendant la guerre du Vietnam.
- Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 6 nominations au total
James Aaron Oliver
- Jet Pilot
- (as James Oliver)
François Chau
- Province Governor
- (as Francois Chau)
Teerawat Mulvilai
- Little Hitler
- (as Teerawat 'Ka-Ge' Mulvilai)
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If you're a big fan of the mad German genius Werner Herzog, you might be disappointed in this, his first foray into Hollywood film-making. This is polished and not at all experimental. However, to me it feels like Herzog, when he stepped up to the plate, said to himself, "Well, I can make an American film. And I can make a better one than 95% of American films." And there's nothing wrong with that. The film is a dramatization of the events retold in Herzog's earlier documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Christian Bale plays Dieter Dengler, an American citizen and German emigré who had one of the most impressive survival instincts ever seen in a human being. Shot down in Laos in the opening throes of the Vietnam War, he was taken to a brutal POW camp where he met two other American POWs (Jeremy Davies and Steven Zahn in the film) and three Asian men who had worked with the enemy. The two Americans had been there for an average of a couple of years, and had all but given up hope (the Davies character is sure there will be peace soon enough). Through his amazing ingenuity, Dieter planned a heroic escape. Most of the movie takes place in the POW camp. Most of what I remember from Little Dieter Needs to Fly, which I saw around two years ago, is the escape. It's a disturbing, horrifying tale of survival. I would have liked this part to be the longer, but it works very well. It's certainly harrowing. I was disappointed that one of the images I really remember from the original film did not appear: the bear that stalked Dieter during his final days wandering in the jungle. He considered it almost a friend, but in the back of his mind realized it was following him because it wanted to eat him. Herzog keeps things extremely subtle, telling them very much the way they happened. The story develops more like real life, not like a movie. It keeps melodrama to a minimum. My only problem is how it ends. The ending is way too boisterous and uplifting. Dieter Dengler was most definitely an upbeat kind of guy, but his suffering and the awful things that he saw heck, with the awful things that we just experienced with him, so vivid is this movie don't lead well to the celebration that ends the movie. I very much liked this film, and think it is one of the best I've seen so far this year.
In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the plane of the German-American pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally ill prisoners. He becomes close to Duane (Steve Zahn) and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene (Jeremy Davies) 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 split the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison.
"Rescue Dawn" is a good drama of war, with great performances of Christian Bale and Steve Zahn. Jeremy Davies has his customary role of an insecure and unstable guy. The story shows the spirit of a soldier and his struggle for surviving in a totally hostile environment. The poor and suffered peasants that had their lands, homes and families bombed are naive and do not have military training; therefore the storyline of Dieter's amazing escape is credible. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "O Sobrevivente" ("The Survivor")
"Rescue Dawn" is a good drama of war, with great performances of Christian Bale and Steve Zahn. Jeremy Davies has his customary role of an insecure and unstable guy. The story shows the spirit of a soldier and his struggle for surviving in a totally hostile environment. The poor and suffered peasants that had their lands, homes and families bombed are naive and do not have military training; therefore the storyline of Dieter's amazing escape is credible. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "O Sobrevivente" ("The Survivor")
Writer-director Werner Herzog, whose films have always been marked by a rapport with the natural world, takes this trademark to Laos in "Rescue Dawn," a compelling, intimate account of the Vietnam conflict. Based on the real-life tale of Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a German-born/American-bred fighter pilot with a cocky, cowboy-like demeanor, the film goes for realism and largely succeeds. The setting is a microscopic POW camp where Dengler and a half-dozen prisoners, including Dwight (Steve Zahn, playing well against type) and Gene (Jeremy Davies--"Saving Private Ryan") plot an escape. Interestingly, the extensive Vietnamese spoken in the film is not subtitled, which actually adds to the strong sense of isolation incurred from the POWs' position. Herzog also paints "Rescue Dawn" as a timely meditation on the Iraq War--while Dieter's John Wayne persona (that takes a drastically different turn in the second half) could be read as an endorsement of American militarism, we see the emaciated, defeated prisoners almost as symbols of a war that's been "lost" from the beginning; even later in the film, the Vietnamese captors begin to show the same signs of fatigue and desperation. The whole concept of "escape" is essential to making an entertaining, suspenseful film (which "Rescue Dawn" certainly is), but also reflective of a current foreign-policy mess that should have been curtailed before it even began. But Herzog is subtle in his politics, and lets the jungle do most of the talking--once Dieter and his fellow prisoners escape, the road to a "happy ending" is anything but "cut and dry." The director often puts us in the midst of torture and terror, but also milks moments of surprising humor to great effect, and gets excellent performances from the entire cast (while Bale is top-billed, Zahn and Davies are the real standouts). My only real complaint about the film is a conclusion that comes off as contrived and unnecessary, stretching the credibility of the harrowing realism that came before. Otherwise, "Rescue Dawn" is one of 2007's standout features.
Rescue Dawn is a film that details the real-life struggles that a fighter pilot endured when he was shot down during the Vietnam War. I appreciate that the film doesn't waste any time at all. It seems that not more than 10 minutes into the film, Christian Bale is lost behind enemy lines. You almost have to be engaged by the story of a POW, particularly when they are mistreated in captivity. It's tough to watch all that Dengler was put through in his long time in Laos. I was definitely invested and felt like I was put through an emotional wringer as the film doesn't give you much cause for hope. I found myself worn down as the character began to reach his limits. He couldn't seem to bear much more pain (physically or emotionally,) and I was ready to give up on the film because it was so dire and depressing, but the chance they might try to escape gave me enough to endure.
Knowing that the entire film is based on a true story is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, I appreciate that there is something to keep my spirits up when the film is so bleak, because I know somehow Dengler must have survived to tell this story. Then again, it takes away a bit of drama at the end of the film, because we know help will come at some point. Christian Bale does a good job in the lead role, and did some of his patented extreme weight loss. I loved what Steve Zahn brought to the film, and I thought this showed he had some range, instead of always being the comic relief. Jeremy Davies is an actor I've always struggled with, perhaps because he is constantly typecast as a bit of a weasel, but I suppose that fits for this role. As a whole film, Rescue Dawn is tough to watch. But it's a powerful tale of survival in the worst of circumstances, so I enjoyed it to some degree.
Knowing that the entire film is based on a true story is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, I appreciate that there is something to keep my spirits up when the film is so bleak, because I know somehow Dengler must have survived to tell this story. Then again, it takes away a bit of drama at the end of the film, because we know help will come at some point. Christian Bale does a good job in the lead role, and did some of his patented extreme weight loss. I loved what Steve Zahn brought to the film, and I thought this showed he had some range, instead of always being the comic relief. Jeremy Davies is an actor I've always struggled with, perhaps because he is constantly typecast as a bit of a weasel, but I suppose that fits for this role. As a whole film, Rescue Dawn is tough to watch. But it's a powerful tale of survival in the worst of circumstances, so I enjoyed it to some degree.
The film is based on the story of the American pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) and his crushing fall onto the territory of Vietnam. Active warfare during the Vietnam War will not be shown here, but you will see the inner side of the horror of the war - the brutal everyday life of the military captivity of American soldiers in the depths of the wild Vietnam jungle, where it is almost impossible to escape and stay alive.
The script is very consistent and rich. Christian Bale, as almost as always, is incomparable and delightful in his role. You believe him and empathize. During the movie, he turns from a self-confident guy into a man who has understood, in his own skin, the difference between educational practice and the reality of war. Other actors also play with a high quality.
The only drawback for me is how poorly was shown of the plane crash at the beginning of the film, there were obviously problems with the special effects during the shooting of the film )
Someone may decides that the film is tightened and there is little action, but behind such silence lies the deepest drama. You can feel the lack of budget and there are some drawbacks, but the message and the idea are much higher than commercial success. You should only feel a little stronger desire of the heroes to live, to fight for their lives, to overcome obstacles and not to despair, and you as a spectator will not remain indifferent.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe film was shot in reverse continuity so Christian Bale, having worked hard to lose weight for the role, would appear the gauntest at the end, and then could simply gain the pounds back over the course of filming, working backwards through time so that when Bale returned to his average weight he would be filming his scenes as Dengler prior to being taken prisoner.
- GaffesDuring his captivity, Dieter is shown wearing his gold wedding band - it is generally regard as something no American pilot would do. However, on the DVD Walter Herzog explains a deleted scene where Dieter's ring is almost stolen. When the guards are transporting Dengler to prison they stop at a village. A man there threatens to kill Dieter unless he gives him his ring-a gift from his fiancée. When they leave the village Dieter tells the guards his ring was stolen and they return to the village. The guards cut off the villager's ring finger and return Dieter's ring to him. This is a factual event that haunted Dengler the rest of his life.
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Giải Cứu Lúc Bình Minh
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 10 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 5 490 423 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 110 326 $US
- 8 juil. 2007
- Montant brut mondial
- 7 177 143 $US
- Durée2 heures 5 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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