Homo Faber (1991)

Directors

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Dieter Kirchlechner, Traci Lind

The story

In April 1957, engineer Walter Faber is waiting to board a flight from Caracas, Venezuela to New York City when he meets a German, Herbert Hencke, who reminds him of an old friend. Before takeoff, Walter decides not to board the airplane, but when a flight attendant discovers him still in the terminal, she escorts him aboard. During the flight, the airplane develops engine trouble and crash lands in the desert near the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains.

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