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Oct 2, 1998 · Werner Herzog directs and narrates this film about Dieter Dengler, a German-American pilot who was shot down, captured, and escaped from the Viet Cong in 1966. The film combines archival footage, recreations, and Herzog's voice-over to tell Dengler's story in a poetic and surreal way.
- (6.8K)
- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Werner Herzog
- 1998-10-02
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (German: Flucht aus Laos, lit. 'Escape from Laos') is a 1997 German-British-French documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, and premiered on German television.
Oct 2, 1998 · A film about Dieter Dengler, a German-American pilot who escaped from a Vietnamese prison camp and survived in the jungle. Werner Herzog interviews Dengler and re-enacts his memories, creating a poetic and haunting portrait of a man who needed to fly.
Apr 17, 2022 · Little Dieter Needs to Fly (German: Flucht aus Laos, lit. 'Escape from Laos') is a 1997 German-British-French documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog, produced by Werner...
- 77 min
- 29.8K
- The Viceregal Archive
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War.
- (15)
- Documentary
- Werner Herzog
Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly.
At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue.
