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The Rescue

director: Jimmy Chin, ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI

original title: The Rescue

country: United States, Thailand

year: 2021

running time: 110 min.

synopsis

In their new film, the authors of the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo reconstruct the day-by-day liberation of twelve Thai junior football players and their coach who were stranded in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in northern Thailand in June 2018 due to monsoon rains. The 14-day rescue operation involved members of the Thai and US special forces as well as Buddhist monks. But it was a foursome of determined divers from different parts of the world who earned special attention. Thanks to their previously unreleased footage, The Rescue is both a moving story of courage and a gripping claustrophobic thriller.

"The ingenuity involved in coming up with a solution to an impossible situation is the kind of story you dream of finding." (Jimmy Chin)

biography

E. Chai Vasarhelyi (1977) is an American documentary filmmaker who has made several documentaries first on her own and then with her husband, professional mountaineer and photographer Jimmy Chin (1973). Their adrenaline-pumping films about climbing mountains and rocks, Meru (2015) and Free Solo (2018) have been won a number of prestigious awards.

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director:

Jimmy Chin, ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI

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