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Sunday, Feb 11, 2024
5 PM (80 mins)
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Dieter Dengler’s passionate desire to fly brought him from war-ravaged Germany to the United States in the 1950s. In 1966 Dengler’s US Navy bomber was downed by antiaircraft fire during a mission in Laos and he became a prisoner of war. Herzog films Dengler telling his astonishing story near his birthplace in Germany, at his home on Mount Tamalpais, and in Laos and Thailand, where, with the help of locals, Dengler reenacts the tortures he endured and explains how he survived. Despite Dengler’s rapid-fire, unsentimental narration, Herzog presents him as haunted, a fugitive from death, still mindful of lost comrades and the victims of his bombs.
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Peter Zeitlinger
- Les Blank
Language
- English
- German
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 80 mins
Source
- American Genre Film Archive
Event Accessibility
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