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Wings of Hope is a Allemand film of genre Biography directed by Werner Herzog with Werner Herzog
Wings of Hope (2000)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h5
Directed by Werner Herzog
OriginGerman
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Rating74%
Wings of Hope (German: Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel) is a 2000 made-for-TV documentary directed by Werner Herzog. The film explores the story of Juliane Koepcke, a German Peruvian woman who was the sole survivor of Peruvian flight LANSA Flight 508 following its mid-air disintegration after a lightning strike in 1971. Herzog was inspired to make this film as he narrowly avoided taking the same flight while he was location scouting for Aguirre, Wrath of God. His reservation was canceled due to a last minute change in itinerary.
In the film, Herzog and Koepcke visit the scenes of her flight, crash, and escape from the jungle. They take a flight from Lima to Pucallpa (though with a different airline), and sit in the same row of seats where Koepcke sat during the crash. They unearth many large fragments of the plane in the jungle, and then visit the river routes where she traveled for 10 days on foot, and the small village where she was eventually found by three men, one of whom appears in the film.
Wings of Hope is often seen as a companion piece or sequel to Herzog's 1997 film Little Dieter Needs to Fly, in which he retraces the steps of a German/American Navy pilot's successful escape from a POW camp during the Vietnam War.
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Werner Herzog retourne dans la forêt équatoriale sud-américaine avec Juliane Koepcke, la femme allemande unique survivante d'un accident d'avion survenu le 24 décembre 1971 et qui a causé la mort de 91 personnes.Actors
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