Julian's fall into the jungle
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| Original title | Julian's fall into the jungle wings of hope (alternative title) |
| Country of production | Peru , Germany , United Kingdom |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 65 minutes |
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| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script | Werner Herzog |
| production | Film production on behalf of ZDF , co-production by ZDF Enterprises and BBC Bristol |
| camera | Peter Zeitlinger |
| cut | Joe Bini |
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Julian's Fall into the Jungle ( English : Wings of Hope ) is a documentary by Werner Herzog from 1998, which was broadcast in 2000.
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Werner Herzog returns to the South American rainforest in Peru, accompanied by Juliane Koepcke , the only survivor of the 92 passengers on LANSA flight 508 on December 24, 1971, and her husband Erich.
You will find the remains of the plane wreck and follow the journey the then seventeen-year-old young woman made to get out of the Peruvian jungle. After days of wandering through a small, unspoilt river, the young woman found a hut, where she was very weakened and injured, and finally discovered on the twelfth day by three Indian forest workers.
In addition, the biological research station Panguana is visited, which was founded by Julian's parents Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke in 1968, and the goal was Julian's and her mother Maria. Juliane graduated from school in Lima on December 23rd and was accompanied by her mother.
background
Werner Herzog, who was in Peru in the preparation phase for his film Aguirre, the Wrath of God , was like Juliane Koepcke at the LANSA airport counter at Lima Airport that day . On that day two LANSA flights were to go to Cusco , both covered by the same aircraft. But because of repair work, the first flight, that of Herzog, was canceled. The airline didn't have a good reputation as two of its planes had already crashed, killing 150 people. Koepcke boarded the plane, as she describes it in the film, with very mixed feelings.
As soon as he found out about the crash and the fact that he and his film team only shot a few rivers of Juliane Koepcke, who was fighting for her life, he decided to make a film about her - but initially could not establish contact with her because she refused for a long time to agree to media coverage. It was only many years later that he was able to convince her to make this film, but under her maiden name in order to protect her current privacy.
Juliane Koepcke's dreams, as they are described and documented in the film, were invented and written by Herzog, which is a constant in the director's documentaries. His work is often embellished with inventions or productions.
The international and English title Wings of Hope goes back to the inscription Alas de Esperanza ("Wings of Hope") on a plaster memorial for the victims of the flight in the Peruvian city of Pucallpa .
Trivia
Juliane Koepcke's seat was row 19, seat F.
Web links
- June's fall in the jungle in the Internet Movie Database (English)