BF-109 — A Film by Ari Taub
Sicily, 1943. General Rudolf Ziegler — ace fighter pilot for Germany's Luftwaffe — arrives with his squadron at a sun-bleached airfield outside Trapani. For a brief, deceptive moment, the island feels like peace. Then the bombs begin to fall.
Ziegler's 77th Fighter Group scrambles daily against overwhelming Allied air power, flying battered Messerschmitts from crumbling runways while nightly raids reduce their bases to rubble. Around the dinner table at a pink-hued villa, we meet the men who will carry the story.
Youthful Lieutenant Hans Fischer, eccentric sandal-wearing Captain Schneider, and the others laugh and banter even as the walls close in. As the Allied advance makes their mission impossible, Ziegler must hold his men together through sheer force of will — fighting not for victory, but for survival, and for each other.
Plot
Sicily, 1943. General Rudolf Ziegler — ace fighter pilot for Germany's Luftwaffe — arrives with his squadron at a sun-bleached airfield outside Trapani. For a brief, deceptive moment, the island feels like peace. Then the bombs begin to fall.
Ziegler's 77th Fighter Group scrambles daily against overwhelming Allied air power, flying battered Messerschmitts from crumbling runways while nightly raids reduce their bases to rubble. Around the dinner table at a pink-hued villa, we meet the men who will carry the story.
Youthful Lieutenant Hans Fischer, eccentric sandal-wearing Captain Schneider, and the others laugh and banter even as the walls close in. As the Allied advance makes their mission impossible, Ziegler must hold his men together through sheer force of will — fighting not for victory, but for survival, and for each other.
- Format
- Feature Film
- Genre
- War Drama
- Status
- In Development
- Director
- Ari Taub
- Written by
- Cheryl Neve
- Producer
- Hit & Run Productions, Inc.