Little Dieter Needs to Fly - 1997
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Updated: 18 Jul 2022
Directors:
Glen Scantlebury Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Peter Zeitlinger Joe Bini Rainer Standke André Singer Lucki Stipetić
Actors:
Dieter Dengler Werner Herzog Eugene Deatrick
Genre:
Western, War, Thriller, TV Movie, Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Music, Horror, History, Fantasy, Family, Drama, Documentary, Crime, Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Action
Country: no data
Year: 1997
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?