Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Overview
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?
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Cast
Werner Herzog
Dieter Dengler
Eugene Deatrick
Crew
Werner Herzog
Joe Bini
André Singer
Lucki Stipetić
Glen Scantlebury
Rainer Standke
Werner Herzog
Peter Zeitlinger