Dieter Dengler: When I was uhh… five or somethin', I was looking out the window, with my brother… and we see this fighter plane was coming right at us.

迪特·丹格拉：当我……呃，差不多五岁左右的时候，我和弟弟一起望着窗外发呆……我们看到一架战斗机从头顶飞过。

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Now Herzog retells the tale as a feature film, starring Christian Bale first chipper, then cadaverous as the indestructible Dengler.

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Yet the film lacks the hypnotic strangeness of the original, and the dramatized Dengler, however heroic his survival, feels like a watery imitation of the real thing.

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