Jürgen Vogel is Ötzi the Iceman. (Credit: Port au Prince 24/Bilder) From a block of ice to the silver screen; Ötzi the Iceman, an archaeological star, is getting his own feature film. From German director Felix Randau, the movie is a fictionalized account of Ötzi's life and eventual death at the hands of an unknown archer in the Alps. Though the story is mostly fictional, the clothing, props and setting were all recreated with the help of researchers from the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, with the goal of creating a story that could have potentially played out 5,300 years ago. It's called "Der Mann Aus Dem Eis," or the much-more-concisely-translated "Iceman."
If you didn't know already, Ötzi dies at the end—this is a spoiler akin to revealing the end of Titanic. That fact we know for certain, given that he was found in 1991 near the Austria-Italy border frozen ...
