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Wings of Courage (1995) is the world's first dramatic picture shot in the
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-format. Additionally, it was the first 3D IMAX fiction film. It cost $20 million to make
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Directed by acclaimed French filmmaker
Jean-Jacques Annaud- Biography :Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, a southern suburb of Paris, France.He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. In his first feature film, Black and White in Color from 1976, he used personal experience obtained during his own...
and written by him along with scriptwriter Alain Godard, the 40-minute film tells the real-life story of early airmail pilot Henri Guillaumet (
Craig ShefferCraig Eric Sheffer is an American film and television actor.-Early life:Sheffer was born in York, Pennsylvania to a mother who worked in a nursing home and a father who worked as a prison guard and screenwriter. His brother is writer Hogan Sheffer. He is a graduate of York Suburban Senior High...
), whose small plane crashes in the Andes, forcing him to trek back to civilization on foot. Meanwhile we follow his family and friends at home and their growing concern for him.
Elizabeth McGovernElizabeth McGovern is an American film and theater actress, who later became a singer songwriter. In 1992, she married English producer and director Simon Curtis...
,
Val KilmerVal Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun and a lead role...
and
Tom HulceThomas Edward "Tom" Hulce is an American actor and producer perhaps best known for playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the feature film Amadeus.-Early life:Hulce was born in Whitewater, Wisconsin and raised in Plymouth, Michigan...
also star.
Cast
- Craig Sheffer - Henri Guillaumet
Henri Guillaumet was a French aviator.He was a pioneer of French aviation in the Andes, the South Atlantic and the North Atlantic. He contributed to the opening up of numerous new routes and is regarded by some as the best pilot of his age...
- Elizabeth McGovern - Noelle Guillaumet
- Tom Hulce - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- Val Kilmer - Jean Mermoz
Jean Mermoz was a French aviator, viewed as a hero by many in both Argentina and his native France, where many schools bear his name.-Early years:...
- Ken Pogue - Pierre Deley
Pierre Deley , was one of the pioneering pilots for the Aéropostale company.He was born in Marseillan, France, the grand nephew and godson of another Marseillan native, Pierre Roques, the founder of French military aviation.He obtained his fighter pilot's licence in 1917 and finished World War I...
- Ron Sauvé - Jean-René Lefebvre
- Molly Parker