Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
- vietnam war
- vietnam
- vietcong
- prisoner of war
- u.s. navy
- based on true story
- post war germany
- struggle for survival
- pow escape
- life story
The bill
- Directed
- Werner Herzog
- Written
- Werner Herzog
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 101 ratings
- Studio
- Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, ZDF
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