Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Documentary

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997
77 min
7.5
75.0%
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(91 votes)

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. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

DIRECTED BY

Werner Herzog

STARRING

Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
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Cast

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

Dieter Dengler

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Eugene Deatrick

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