Der letzte Flug (2004)

• 67%
• 2004
• Drame
• Guerre
• André Hennicke
• Andreas Hofer
• Herbert Knaup

July 31, 1944: Somewhere in the south of France a French fighter pilot comes back from a sortie over the Mediterranean Sea. Le lieutenant Mueller sauts de down from his Messerschmitt fighter and reports, obviously pleased that he has shot down a Lightning reconnaissance de la bâche. Mueller and his comrades celebrate the kill the officers mess with booze and jokes, as it is still fashionable, even at this stage of the war. They indulge in political uncorrectness, as they are the elite of the Luftwaffe. Mueller rappels the combat. His prey didn't even see him come. He was hit out of the blue, the truest sense of the word. As the emotions cool down a bit, à orderly comes into the mess and hands a copy of the combat report to Mueller. The orderly mentions that the other side has stated the name of the missing pilot of the Lightning. He says the name, and we can read from the faces of the pilots that part of their world comes tumbling down: Mueller has killed Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "the...