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Apr 17, 2022 · The film follows the life of Dieter Dengler, in particular being shot down during the Vietnam War and his capture, imprisonment, escape, and rescue. Herzog subsequently directed Rescue Dawn, a ...
- 77 min
- 30.6K
- The Viceregal Archive
Jul 21, 2015 · Little Dieter Needs To Fly Trailer. Festival de Cine de Lima PUCP. 4.27K subscribers. Subscribed.
- 2 min
- 9.6K
- Festival de Cine de Lima PUCP
Jan 7, 2015 · After a period of torture and starvation chained to the bottom of a bamboo cage, Dengler escaped. Please watch this other documentary https://youtu.be/8rsSpMEulYMDengler was taken...
- 78 min
- 89.8K
- Josep Svęnnan
Oct 2, 1998 · German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.
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- 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 20, 2023 · Little Dieter Needs to Fly Seen in the context of director Werner Herzog’s entire career, Dieter Dengler—the German-American pilot who was shot down over Laos during the American war in Vietnam, escaped a prison camp, and survived some three weeks in the jungle—is the ultimate Herzogian hero.
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Apr 4, 2021 · 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.