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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
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Director:
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Werner Herzog (writer)
Release Date:
2 October 1998 (USA)
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In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot...
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
Another 5 wins
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1 nomination
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(5 articles)
A Serious Man and the odd movie out
(From The Guardian - Film News. 29 November 2009, 1:30 PM, PST)
Seven More "Remakes" We'd Love Werner Herzog To Direct
(From IFC. 19 November 2009, 4:50 PM, PST)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 29 November 2009, 1:30 PM, PST)
Seven More "Remakes" We'd Love Werner Herzog To Direct
(From IFC. 19 November 2009, 4:50 PM, PST)
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a surreal documentary about a German American who needs food and flight
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Dieter Dengler | ... | Himself | |
| Werner Herzog | ... | Himself / Narrator (voice) | |
| Eugene Deatrick | ... | Himself |
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Also Known As:
Flucht aus Laos (Germany)
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USA:80 min
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Dieter Dengler:
Duane, my friend, he was gone, and from then on my motions, my progress, became mechanical. In fact, I couldn't care less if I would live or die. But then later on, there was this bear, this beautiful bear that was following me. It was circling me in fact sometimes...
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Movie Connections:
Spin off Rescue Dawn (2006)
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| I Only Wish There Were More Dieters in the World | lagomorph13 |
| Rescue Dawn | chansky111 |
| great doc | teejay6682 |
| Drama? Tragedy? Comedy? | Cass1us |
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Werner Herzog again explores the psyche of a man. In "Little Dieter...", we meet an effervescent, brilliant man who survived the war in Bavaria seeing starvation and strange sights, moved to the U.S. and fulfilled his dream of being a flier. War, food, death, survival, hoarding, planes, heads coming off... how one American is born. Herzog again sees madness as plane of existence and the surreal blends with the poignant as Herzog himself narratives this psychic travelogue of a German becoming an American who flies prop planes in a late 20th century war where the culmination of technology, pilgrimage and eating out of garbage cans with spoons is melded with constant optimism into a man redefined into American. As always with Herzog we are faced with florid madness, brilliance and what is man in the face of his own excesses, societal and personal. We laugh and cringe and are amazed at this man. Where else for this man but America?