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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Name: Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Genre: Documentary
Released: 01 Dec 1997
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick

HD 3.5 80 minutes

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. 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. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories? The director would use this subject for the feature film Rescue Dawn (2007).

Genre: Documentary

Release: Dec 01, 1997

Crew: Werner Herzog (Director), Joe Bini (Editor), Lucki Stipetić (Producer), Rainer Standke (Editor), André Singer (Executive Producer), Glen Scantlebury (Editor)

Cast: Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick

Language: English

Studio: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, ZDF