Little Dieter Needs to Fly
by Werner Herzog
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Actor: Dieter Dengler, Werner HerzogDirector: Werner Herzog
Brand: BALE,CHRISTIAN
Cinematographer: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Glen Scantlebury
Editor: Rainer Standke
Editor: Joe Bini
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Little Dieter Needs to Fly
DVD Review: AND THUS LITTLE DIETER GOT IT ALL
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say .A fascinating documentary of a amazing mans life and times.Do not miss this one under any circumstance. A testament to the courage of the Human spirit.Dieter Dengler truly lived a life. How many of us can say that in the end ? The light that burns twice as bright lasts half as long and Dieter Dengler's Life burned like a Blow Torch.............DVD Review: A Hero's Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This is Herzog's best documentary due to the outstanding story of Dieter Dengler's life, POW experience, the miracle of his escape and how well he continues with his life afterwards. It is also one of the most touching and inspiring movies I ever watched. When you see the great humanity with which Dieter calms down one of the laotian men trying to reenact his captivity for this documentary you can do nothing but admire him.
What might the point of this movie be: Dieter's obsession to fly was his doom and his cure? How to cope with life's hardships? The life story of a great person?
Herzog brings Dieter so close to the viewer that most will shed a tear for him at the end. I did.
DVD Review: I tip my hat to Dieter Dengler !!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Werner Herzog turned out an gripping documentary when he made Little Dieter Needs to Fly. This fine documentary tells the true story of Dieter Dengler who went through h*ll after being shot down in his plane while on a mission during the Vietnam War. While this isn't exactly a pretty story, the film moves along at a good pace. The cinematography is excellent and Herzog went to great lengths to recruit native Asian men (in Laos) who essentially act out some of the things his torturers did to him when he was their prisoner.
When the movie starts, we quickly learn that Dieter was only a small child when he watched helplessly as Allied planes nearly crashed into his bedroom window when they made air raids on Germany during World War II. While this certainly could have caused Dieter to avoid aviation, it had the opposite effect: Dieter wanted more than anything to be able to fly a plane. When he was eighteen, Dieter left Germany to immigrate to America; and he learned to fly. He was also drafted into the air force during the Vietnam War; and the majority of this film has Dieter telling us his story so we know what he experienced as a prisoner of war held by the Vietcong.
What happened to Dieter is so terrible it's a small miracle he survived. Actually, I take that back--it's a HUGE miracle that he survived. I don't want to spoil too much of it for you but I will say that his captors were so cruel I haven't seen anything like it except for the Nazi concentration caps during World War II. His stories about the exact nature of his torture, the prison camp where he was held and a planned escape are harrowing to say the least. There's another amazing story of him and a buddy almost going over a monstrous, crushing waterfall on a raft; they just managed to escape death that day, too.
I won't tell you how Dieter ultimately found freedom; it's very poignant and a stunning tale that I won't forget anytime soon.
My only disappointment is that, as others have noted, we know next to nothing else about Dieter Dengler. True, Dieter tells us that he learned to be a blacksmith and that he toiled hard hours as an apprentice; but we honestly learn little else about him except for a very quick view of his current home outside of San Francisco where he hoards tons of food to make sure that he never has to go hungry again. The film essentially remains a tale of Dieter's experiences as a prisoner; there is little said about his childhood and nothing at all is said about his current personal life except that he likes to open and close doors so that he doesn't feel trapped like he was when he was brutally tortured.
Overall, Little Dieter Needs to Fly hit me over the head like a ton of bricks; this story is all THAT shocking and horrific. It's a real testament to Dieter's strength that he lasted through everything that came his way. I certainly wouldn't have lasted through all that; I tip my hat to Dieter Dengler!
DVD Review: Great story but dry documentary
Summary: 1 Stars
1. I watched the movie version of this story (Rescue Dawn) and thus wanted to check out the "real story".
2. Bottomline: obviously this is a compelling story, but in terms of a critical review of the DVD itself--> a total snooze. It is what it is--> a documentation of the man and his life; nothing more, nothing less. In terms of a more interesting Herzog documentary--> Grizzly Man is much much better. More controversial but also more interesting as a film etc...
3. Tangent: after watching Rescue Dawn and then this documentary, I now realize that Rescue Dawn was fairly close representation of the reality of what happened. A decent movie, but not great.
DVD Review: I especially appreciated this documentary because
Summary: 4 Stars
it continued the life of Dieter Dengler as it ended in the story "German Boy."
German Boy is a wonderful book on how it was for a small German boy, little Dieter (Dieter Dengler), to grow up in post war Germany.
When I started watching this movie, I had no idea that the Little Dieter in the title was, in deed, the little boy in German Boy.
Hertzog's style is in all its full glory in this film. I like the jumps back and forth in time, and the way Hertzog takes Dieter back to the very places he was captive so that Dieter can say exactly how he felt at the time.
It was rather touching the way Dieter told one of the Laotian's that it was okay, comforting him, and trying to keep him from being afraid.
Such a caring man.
BTW, there was a feature film made about Dieter Dengler's experiences when he was shot down in his U.S. Navy AD-6 Skyraider, also produced by Hertzog, called "Rescue Dawn" which actually dramatically demonstrates all the things Dieter Dengler went through as a captive including his friend getting his head chopped off. It is also a very good movie.
I saw that on [...] but I bet amazon.com (my favorite retailer) has it for sale at a good price.
Description of Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Educational Media Network-Winner, Golden Apple 1999 Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming-Winner, Silver FIPA 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival-Winner, Golden Spire 1998 International Documentary Association- Winner IDA Award 1997 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival-Winner, Special Jury Award As a young boy, Dieter Dengler watched as Allied planes destroyed his village. From that instant, he knew that he wanted to fly. So at 18, he moved to America, enlisted in the Navy, and was promptly shipped off to Vietnam. During one of his first missions, however, Dengler was shot down over Laos and taken prisoner. Despite torture and starvation-at one point he weighed 85 pounds-he escaped, and after a harrowing journey through the jungle on foot, returned home. Today, even comfort and success cannot dispel the demons of his past. In this remarkable, award- winning documentary, director Werner Herzog returns to the jungle with Dengler, to tell an incredible tale of courage and survival against impossible odds. Includes a 5x7 Theatrical Poster ReplicaFeatures: Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs Production Notes Werner Herzog Bio
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