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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 · 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
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
- 30.4K
- 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
Little Dieter Needs to Fly. This is the unbelievable true story of Dieter Dengler, who fulfilled his life dream of becoming a fighter pilot—a dream which was shattered only a few days into his first tour of duty in the Vietnam War, when he was shot down over Laos…. 79 IMDb 8.0 1 h 16 min 1998. NR.
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 ...
