WERNER HERZOG (Writer/Director) was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw any films, television, or telephones as a child. He started traveling on foot from the age of 14. He made his first phone call at the age of 17. During high school he worked the nightshift as a welder in a steel factory to produce his first films and made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19.Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than forty films, published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Some of his most notable films are GRIZZLY MAN, THE WILD BLUE YONDER, NOSFERATU THE VAMYPRE, STROSZEC, AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER.Herzog will next be seen as an actor in Zak Penn’s THE GRAND and Harmony Korine’s MISTER LONELY. Rescue Dawn Synopsis In the annals of history's great escapes 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. After months plotting his getaway from a harrowing prison and a death-defying journey through some of the world's fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first press conference looking like a dashing movie star and showing neither sentimentality nor bitterness - simply an indomitable will to survive that allowed him to triumph against impossible odds.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. Exclusive engagements in NY and LA July 4th.Coming Soon to a theater near you!
